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Slithering_Serpents
at Sat Oct 13 15:46:50 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Slithering_Serpents ]
in a het. It doesn't matter if it's a dominant or recessive or codominant gene. A het is a het. It doesn't matter what it looks like. What it looks like is not part of the definition of het. Het is short for heterozygous. It means that the gene pair are not the same. One of them is different. This can mean one or both of them are mutated genes, but they don't match each other, they are different.
I can't believe how many times and how many people now have explained this! And still so many people don't get it. There is no such thing as a dominant hypo or a recessive hypo. Dominant and recessive are modes of genetic transmission. Those are not in any way a description of homo (homozygous) or het (heterozygous). Homozygous is a description where there same gene makes up the pair. Heterozygous is where the pair are different from each other.
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any kind of gene can be involved . . . - Slithering_Serpents, Sat Oct 13 15:46:50 2007