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How do incomplete dominance and codominance differ?

What is incomplete penet rance and what causes it?

What is a recessive epistatic gene?

What is a complementation test and what is it used for?

What characteristics are exhibited by a cytoplasmically inherited trait?

What is genomic imprinting?

What is the difference between genetic maternal effect and genomic imprinting?

What is the difference between a sex-influenced gene and a gene that exhibits genomic imprinting?

What are continuous characteristics and how do they arise?

Match each of the following terms with its correct definition (parts a through \(i\) ). _________phenocopy _________pleiotrophy _________polygenic trait _________penetrance _________sex-limited trait _________genetic maternal effect _________genomic imprinting _________sex-influenced trait _________anticipation a. the percentage of individuals with a particular genotype that express the expected phenotype b. a trait determined by an autosomal gene that is more easily expressed in one sex c. a trait determined by an autosomal gene that is expressed in only one sex d. a trait that is determined by an environmental effect and has the same phenotype as a genetically determined trait e. a trait determined by genes at many lod f. the expression of a trait is affected by the sex of the parent that transmits the gene to the offspring g. the trait appears earlier or more severely in succeeding generations h. a gene affects more than one phenotype i. the genotype of the maternal parent influences the phenotype of the offspring