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Codominant vs Codominance - What's the difference?

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Codominance is a related term of codominant.



In genetics terms the difference between codominant and codominance

is that codominant is describing two or more alleles that are equally dominant while codominance is a condition in which both alleles of a gene pair in a heterozygote are fully expressed, with neither one being dominant or recessive to the other.

As an adjective codominant

is describing two or more alleles that are equally dominant.

As a noun codominance is

a condition in which both alleles of a gene pair in a heterozygote are fully expressed, with neither one being dominant or recessive to the other.

codominant

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Alternative forms

*co-dominant

Adjective

(-)
  • (genetics) Describing two or more alleles that are equally dominant.
  • *1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2004, p. 137:
  • *:A and B are ‘co-dominant ’ versions of the same gene, O being the ‘recessive’ form of it.

    • codominance

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (genetics) A condition in which both alleles of a gene pair in a heterozygote are fully expressed, with neither one being dominant or recessive to the other.

    • Related terms

    * codominant