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Heredity Traits in Plants and Animals

The document outlines dominant and recessive traits in plants and animals, specifically focusing on Mendel's studies of Pisum sativum and various animal examples. It includes tables detailing traits such as flower color, seed shape, and skin color in different species. Additionally, it discusses normal and abnormal human traits, categorizing them into dominant and recessive characteristics.

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Heredity Traits in Plants and Animals

The document outlines dominant and recessive traits in plants and animals, specifically focusing on Mendel's studies of Pisum sativum and various animal examples. It includes tables detailing traits such as flower color, seed shape, and skin color in different species. Additionally, it discusses normal and abnormal human traits, categorizing them into dominant and recessive characteristics.

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Characteer Gene Dominant Trait Recessive Trait

Stem Le
length Tall Dwarf

Pod
shape inflated Constricted
Seed
R Round
shape Wrinkled
Seed
colour Yellow Green

Flower Fa
position Axial Terminal

Flower A White
colour Purple

Pod
GP
colour Green
Yellow

Figure 2.3: Seven characters of Pisum


sativum studied by Mendel.
Tobla
Flower Plant Seed Seed Pod Pod Flower
Colour Height Color Shape Colour Shape Position

Dominant
Trait

Purple Tall Yellow Round Inflated


Green Axial
(full)

Recessive
Trait

White Short Green Wrinkled Constricted


Yellow Terminal
(lat)
B. Certain other examples of phenomenon of dominance in animas. The
recessive traits or characters of some animals can be tabulated in following table
dominant and
Table 3.3. The dominant and recessve characters in animals

Name of anlmal
Body character Dominant Recessive
1. Cat Skin colour Tabby Black or blue
Length of halr Short hairs Long halrs (Angora)
2. Dog Skin colour Grey Black
Tall Stumpy Normal tall
3. Cattle Colour of face White Coloured
Horn Polled or Hornless Horned
4. Horse skin colour Black Red
Mavement Troting Pact
5. Sheep Hair or wool or White Black
fleece
6. Swine ar Pig Skin colour Black Red
Hoof Uncleft Normal
7. Salamander Body colour Dark Light
8. Frult ly Eye colour Red Whte
(Drosophila) Wings Flat and yellow Curled and white
Body colour Grey Black
9. Land snall Shape of shell Unbanded shell Banded shell

C. Dominant and recessive characters in man. In man various types of dominant and recessive
characters have been reported. According to their nature these can be divided into normal, abnormal.
and sex-linked characters.
) Normal characters. These characters always behave as dominant and recessive. These are
tabulatedas follows:

Table 3.4. Normal human traits.

Recesslve
Body part Character Dominant
1. Halr Form Curly Stralght
Colour Dark Light
2. Skin Colour Dark LIg
Pigment Normal None
(wlth melanin) (albinism, without
melanin pigment)
Brown Blue
3. Eyes or Irts Colour
i) Abnormal characters. The abnormal characters occur unusualy and can be tabulated as
follows:

Table 3.5. Abnormal human tralts.

Body part Dominant Recessive


1. Halr Absent Present
2. Skin epldermls Thtckened Normal
3. Fingers Short Normal
Webbed Normal
Extra digts Normal
4. Ear Normal heartng Deaf mutsm
5. Ear lobe Free ear lobe Attached ear lobe
6. Eyes Opaque lens Normal
Glaucom Normal
7. Teeth Absent Present
8. Tangue Abilty to role Inabilty to role
9. Taste of Taste bitter to PTC Tasteless to PTC
phenylthlocarbamide
(PTC)

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