Monday 20 May 2013

3.19 understand how to interpret family pedigrees

A pedigree diagram shows a specific gene in a family. It will have a key but most often: a circle represents a female and a square represents a male; often coloured in represents one allele and blank another (but sometimes they are different colours.)

In this diagram, the mother and two sons have a different genes to the others:

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