Category Terminology

What Is Penetrance in Genetics?

Penetrance refers to the proportion of individuals with a particular genotype (genetic makeup) able to exhibit the corresponding phenotype (observable traits or characteristics). In other words, it is the likelihood that a genetic variant will be expressed (as a particular…

What is Transmission Genetics?

Transmission genetics, also known as Mendelian genetics – is the study of the inheritance of traits from one generation to the next. This field of genetics focuses on the patterns of inheritance of genes and how they are passed down…

True Breeding and It’s Importance

True-breeding is a term used to describe a particular characteristic of a species or a strain of an organism where all individuals of that species or strain produce offspring with the same trait when self-fertilized or crossed with another true-breed…