Monday, July 18, 2011

Epistasis

Epistasis is when one gene’s alleles mask another gene’s alleles of a phenotypic effect. For example a yellow lab has alleles that mask the other alleles that would make the dog either brown or black. 

Lefers, M. (2004, July 26). epistasis. Retrieved from http://groups.molbiosci.northwestern.edu/holmgren/Glossary/Definitions/Def-E/epistasis.html

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