Biology A-Level
Alleles, genotypes and phenotypes
What Alleles, genotypes and phenotypes means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Alleles, genotypes and phenotypes
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Alleles are assigned as dominant or recessive, genotypes are labelled with allele symbols, and phenotypes are labelled separately in the diagram.
Topics that use Alleles, genotypes and phenotypes
- Patterns of inheritance (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Allele frequencies
- Autosomal linkage
- Change in allele frequency over generations
- Chi-squared (χ²) test
- continuous variation
- critical value
- Crossing over and independent assortment
- degrees of freedom
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