Topic 5 - Parental Imprinting

Question 1

What is maternal expression?

Answer 1

Allele inherited from mother determines phenotype of offspring

Question 2

What is maternal affect?

Answer 2

Mother needs to have a specific genotype but doesn’t not need to have the specific phenotype, depending on the puppies genotype will determine if they have effect or not

Question 3

Paternal expression?

Answer 3

Paternal parent (father) determines phenotype

Question 4

Polar overdominance?

Answer 4

Particular combination from parent 1 and 2 that determine specific phenotype, which causes lots of expression of that phenotype

Question 5

Polar underdominance?

Answer 5

Particular combination from parent 1 and 2 that determine specific phenotype, which causes least expression of that phenotype