 | Learning Outcomes
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- Distinguish between phenotype and genotype, dominant and recessive, and homozygous and heterozygous.
- Understand how gametes carry only one gene for each trait.
- List a variety of simple recessive and dominant traits in humans.
- Solve one-trait autosomal genetics problems using a Punnett square.
- Understand how meiosis creates genetic diversity among gametes.
- Solve two-trait autosomal genetics problems using a Punnett square.
- Know how to draw and interpret pedigrees for autosomal recessive and dominant disorders.
- Describe several autosomal recessive and dominant disorders.
- Discuss traits inherited with polygenic inheritance and the environmental influence on such traits.
- Explain what is meant by incomplete dominance and codominance and give an example of each.
- Explain what is meant by multiple alleles and give an example.
- Explain how ABO blood types are inherited.
- Show how sex-linked traits are generally inherited on the X chromosome.
- Know how to draw and interpret pedigrees for X-linked disorders.
- Describe several X-linked recessive disorders.
- Understand and use the bold-faced and italicized terms included in this chapter.
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