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After completing the lesson on complete and incomplete dominance, Read the exercise below and answer the short answer question within (do not reply to this post) This is your first lesson and is worth 1/2 point
The difference between co dominance and incomplete dominance is that co-dominance expresses the traits of both alleles when it has one dominant and one recessive allele. An example of co-dominance is someone with the AB blood type, they have both the IA and IB allele, and express the traits of both. Incomplete dominance occurs when a heterozygote’s phenotype is affected by both of the homozygote alleles(for example A and a) and thus the phenotype of the heterozygote is usually some sort of blend between the two homozygotes. Previously we learned with complete dominance that a heterozygote simply showed the same phenotype as the dominant homozygote. An example of incomplete dominance would be crossing a white and a red flower. Say the white flower is denoted is WW and the red is denoted as RR, crossing these flowers will result in RW, and since there is no dominant allele, the phenotype for the heterozygote RW would be purple.
Co-dominance is when neither allele is recessive and the phenotypes of both alleles are apparent. For example, if someone inherits an A allele from their father and a B allele from their mother, they would have an AB blood type because both alleles will be apparent. Incomplete dominance happens when neither allele is dominant over the other. For example, if ‘A’ has an allele for red petals while ‘a’ has an allele for white petals, the outcome of the offspring will be pink petals because neither allele is dominant over the other.