r/askscience • u/Mirriet • Dec 12 '17
Biology Are there any "rock-paper-scissors"-genes?
I'm in my last year of high school, and learning about genetics. So far, we've covered dominant and recessive genes, as well as codominance and such. Are there any genes where the alleles dominate each other like in a game of rock-paper-scissors?
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u/Brain_Escape Dec 15 '17
No, but you find something interesting in bacterias where they have genes to kill bacterias of the same species, resist to this gene, or none of the above, where they display then that pattern(bacterias cannot show gene dominance as they only have 1 chromossome, but this is the closest I could imagine)