INHERITANCE

 

I. Mendel

      A. The pea experiments

      B. Genetics terms: 

            1.locus/allele/pair;

            2. true-breeding/hybrid/carrier;

            3. homozygous/heterozygous;

            4. dominant/recessive;

            5. genotype/phenotype

II. Law of Segregation

      A. Probability

      B.. Punnett square

      C. monohybrid cross

      D.. testcross

III. Law of Independent Assortment -- Dihybrid Cross

IV. Nonmendelian Inheritance

      A. Incomplete Dominance--Snapdragons

      B. Codominance--blood type

      C. Pleiotropy--sickle-cell anemia

      D. Epistasis--Labrador retrievers

      E. Continuous variation--height as a

            multigenic trait

      F. Phenotypic plasticity

V. Some Genetics Problems