dihybrid
Americannoun
adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- dihybridism noun
Etymology
Origin of dihybrid
Vocabulary lists containing dihybrid
Genetics - Middle School
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Recall the phenotypic inheritance pattern for Mendel’s dihybrid cross, which considered two non-interacting genes—9:3:3:1.
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Question: What will be the offspring of a dihybrid cross?
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Ignoring seed color and considering only seed texture in the above dihybrid cross, we would expect that three quarters of the F2 generation offspring would be round, and one quarter would be wrinkled.
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Perfectly unlinked genes correspond to the frequencies predicted by Mendel to assort independently in a dihybrid cross.
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In such a case then Nilsson-Ehle discovered that he was dealing merely with a Mendelian dihybrid where two different determiners B and B′ and their respective absences b and b′ are involved.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.
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