A hypostatic gene is one whose phenotype is masked by the expression of an allele at a separate locus, in an epistasis event. Example: In labrador retrievers, the chocolate coat colour is a result of homozygosity for a gene that is epistatic to the `black vs. yellow` gene. The alleles determining whether the dog is yellow or black, are that of t.....
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(from the article `heredity`) ...as a fully dominant allele masks the expression of its recessive counterpart. A gene that masks the phenotypic effect of another gene is called an ...
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A gene whose properties are suppressed in the presence of another (epistatic) gene.
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A gene whose expression is masked by another gene.
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