Mendel's neat ratios get messy with gene linkage on the same chromosome, aneuploidies, and mitochondrial inheritance. Studying pedigrees in clinical genetics, I see how these "exceptions" are actually the rule for many inherited conditions. The textbooks simplify it, but my sister's thalassemia report, with its complex haplotype inheritance, showed me that reality is rarely a simple Punnett square.
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