Download or read book The Biology of Genetic Dominance written by Reiner A. Veitia and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worddominance, in the context of genetics, has been used for a long time applied to characters or to alleles. A dominant character masks the expression of an alternative form. This loose definition would even apply when these alternatives are not determined by alleles of the same locus. In turn, a dominant allele refers to an alternative ver