In general, humans have the same genes. A number of genes are varied. These control our physical traits and health. Each variation is called an allele. You inherit two alleles for each gene. One comes ...

Homozygous, or homozygosity, refers to the inheritance of genes from each biological parent. Inheriting faulty genes from both parents can cause a person to develop the associated condition. Genetic ...

A dihybrid cross describes a mating experiment between two organisms that are identically hybrid for two traits. A hybrid organism is one that is heterozygous, which means that is carries two ...

An organism's characteristics are controlled by the genes it inherits from its parents. A gene is a location on a chromosome where there is a DNA base sequence that codes for a protein that controls a ...

Berry color locus of the Red Riesling variant located on the chromosome set of the white-berried parent `White Heunisch`. Consequently, mutation of color gene must have taken place in `White Riesling` ...