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Tag: cannabis genetics

Articles explaining inherited cannabis traits, genetic variation, chemotypes, breeding decisions, and the limits of predicting plants from seeds.

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Mendelian inheritance describes predictable patterns that can appear when a trait is strongly influenced by one gene, but…

A genome-wide association study scans many genetic markers across individuals to find variants associated with a measured trait;…

A quantitative trait locus, or QTL, is a DNA region statistically associated with variation in a measured trait.…

Sequencing coverage describes how DNA has been read across a genome or target region. Depth concerns how many…

Gene expression is the process of using information in a gene to produce functional RNA or, through RNA,…

Structural variation is a difference involving a stretch of DNA, such as a deletion, duplication, insertion or rearrangement.…

A cannabis pangenome brings together genomic information from multiple cannabis individuals to represent more variation than a single…

A reference genome is an assembled DNA sequence used as a comparison framework. In cannabis research, it gives…

A haplotype is a group of DNA variants carried together along one chromosome copy. In cannabis research, it…

A SNP, pronounced “snip,” is a difference at one DNA-letter position. In cannabis genetics, a SNP can help…