"individual" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A heterozygote (heterozygous individual) has at least half of the normal enzyme activity level, due to expression by the wild-type allele.
- However, the same mutation also conveyed advantages, providing improved viability for heterozygous individuals.
- Additionally, mitotic recombination can result in the expression of recessive genes in an otherwise heterozygous individual.
- Haemophilia C is not completely recessive, as heterozygous individuals also show increased bleeding.
- In heterozygous individuals, the allele that is expressed is the dominant.
- Underdominance can also be described as homozygote advantage, wherein homozygous individuals have a higher fitness than heterozygous individuals.
- Inversions can also give rise to abnormal gametes in heterozygous individuals but this effect has little importance compared to translocations.
- A heterozygous individual and a person with two normal alleles (homozygous) will have a 50% chance of producing an affected child.
- This situation can be important if, for example, the genetic marker is linked to a disease locus with a strong selection against heterozygous individuals.
- One affected family has been identified with individuals both homozygous and heterozygous for MEN1 mutations.
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