Question

can anyone explain what complementary genes, supplementary genes, and duplicate genes are???

Answer 1

Answer:

Complementary genes are genes that both contribute to a single characteristic, where both genes can mask the effect of the other. You may also think of complementary genes as any instance in which dominant forms of both genes are required for the dominant characteristic to be seen.

Duplicate genes are two identical genes that show similar phenotype ( function), but are located at different regions within a chromosome or on entirely different chromosome. Duplicated genes comprise only 5 percent of the total human genome.

Supplementary genes are genes that both contribute to a single characteristic, where one gene can mask the effect of the other. You may also think of supplementary genes in terms of one gene producing a characteristic and the second as only being able to 'supplement' this characteristic.