Dominance and overdominance have different consequences for the gene expression profile of the individuals.
Overdominance. Selection favoring heterozygotes
Oxygen dissociation curve. A curve showing the percent saturation of a blood pigment, such as hemoglobin, as a function of oxygen concentration of the fluid ...
In the case of overdominance, because Mendel's second law (the law of segregation) necessarily results in the production of homozygotes (which are by definition in this case, less fit), ...
 See also: Dominance, Trait, Population, Alleles, Genetics
  
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