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2 discussion questions are below about a page each.
1) Mendel’s Theory of Inheritance states that individuals in successive generations display the original characteristics of their parents, and that for each category only one characteristic is displayed in each offspring. For example, if a maternal mouse was brown and a paternal mouse was white, the individuals of the F1 generation would be either brown or white, not a mixture of both (tan). Prior to this, scientists believed that characteristics would be blended, producing a blended inheritance.
Could blended inheritance still be a possibility given other theories proposed such as incomplete dominance and codominance?
2) Discuss what constitutes a perfect fertile progeny.
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Blended inheritance
Blended inheritance would not be a possibility because when inheriting one allele can increase
the chance of inheriting another. At the same time, it can affect how traits are expressed in one’s
phenotype (Rogers, 2015). They are cases that align with the non-mendelian inheritance patterns.
When looking at polygenic traits, some traits are determined by a combined effect of more than
one pair of genes, unlike in the blended inheritance. The perfect example is the human stature,
which uses a combination of a couple of genes (Rogers, 2015). Another pointing cas...
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