Class: Zygosity

zygosity is the quality pertaining to the allelic complement of a biological system at a single locus on the DNA.

URI: sio:Zygosity

Parents

• is_a: BiologicalQuality - A biological quality is a quality held by a biological entity.

Children

• Hemizygous - hemizygous is the quality of a biological organism in which, based on the ploidy of the organism, there is half the number of alleles than normal at a given locus.
• Heterozygous - homozygous is the quality of a biological organism in which there are two different alleles at a given locus.
• Homozygous - homozygous is the quality of a biological organism in which there are two identical alleles at a given locus.
• Nullizygous - nullizygous is the quality of a biological organism in which there are no allelles at a given locus.

Referenced by Class

Attributes

Inherited from BiologicalQuality:

• hasCreator _0..1
  • Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
  • Range: Entity

• hasAttribute _0..1

  • Description: has attribute is a relation that associates a entity with an attribute where an attribute is an intrinsic characteristic such as a quality, capability, disposition, function, or is an externally derived attribute determined from some descriptor (e.g. a quantity, position, label/identifier) either directly or indirectly through generalization of entities of the same type.

  • Range: Entity

  • satisfies _0..1

  • Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.

  • Range: Description

  • isRelatedTo _0..1
  • Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
  • Range: Entity
  • isQualityOf _0..1

  • Description: is quality of is a relation between a quality and the entity that it is a property of.

  • Range: Entity

  • isBaseFor _0..1

  • Description: is base for is a relation between a quality and the realizable entity that it is the basis for.

  • Range: RealizableEntity