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What does incomplete penetrance mean? What is the phenotypic ratio?
What does segregation distortion mean? what is phenotypic ratio?
Incomplete Penetrance--is a condition showing few individuals carrying any genetic variability while other do not .It is a genetic term refering to a situation /condition of not being expressed even if it carry the gene for that desired trait.
Phenotypic ratio-- The appearance of a physical character is referred as Phenotype. if we talk about rate or percentage of character within offsprings carried by their genes from their parents is known as Phenotypic ratio.
Segregation distortion--It is a phenonema of non mendelian seggregation in Drosophila in which due to dyfuction of sperm bearing a non SD homologous chromosome.