Complete Dominance

Question 1

What is complete dominance?

Answer 1

• a characteristic that is fully expressed in the phenotype of a heterozygous organism

Question 2

What is stated in Mendel’s law of segregation?

Answer 2

• during meiosis, allele pairs separate (segregate) so that the gametes have a single allele for each characteristic

Question 3

What is stated in Mendel’s law of dominance?

Answer 3

• in a cross of parents that are pure for contrasting traits, only the dominant trait will appear in the phenotype
• recessive alleles will always be masked by dominant alleles

Question 4

What is stated in Mendel’s law of independent assortment?

Answer 4

• the alleles of different genes segregate randomly and independently of one another during gamete formation