Albinism in humans all vertebrates, including humans. It is due to absence or defect of tyrosinase, a copper-containing enzyme involved in the production of melanin. It is the opposite of melanism. Unlike humans, other animals have multiple pigments and for these, albinism is considered to be a hereditary condition characterised by the absence of melanin in particular, in the eyes, skin, hair, scales, feathers or cuticle. While an organism with complete absence of melanin is called an albino, an organism with only a diminished amount of melanin is described as leucistic or albinoid. The term is from the Latin "albus", "white". There are
Mendelian traits in humans multiple alleles are required from each parent (co-dominant). However the Rhesus factor is truly mendelian because only one allele is inherited from each parent. Rh factor is an antigen on the red blood cell of many people's blood. A positive Rh factor is dominant (presence of antigen) and a negative Rh is recessive (lack of antigen). Blood groups that children may inherit from their parents. Mendelian traits in humans Mendelian traits in humans concerns how, in Mendelian inheritance, a child receiving a dominant allele from either parent will have the dominant form of the phenotypic trait or characteristic. Only those