After studying this chapter, you should be able to accomplish the following outcomes. Gregor Mendel
- List the approaches to science that made Gregor Mendel's genetic experiments successful.
Mendel's Laws - Define Mendel's law of segregation.
- Contrast dominant alleles with recessive alleles.
- Define genotype and phenotype.
- Explain how the law of probability applies to genetics.
- Describe how a Punnett square can be used to predict the results of a genetic cross.
- Describe how a pedigree may be used to determine the mode of inheritance of a genetic trait.
- List some well-known genetic disorders in humans.
Extending the Range of Mendelian Genetics
- Explain the inheritance pattern of traits where more than two alleles for the trait exist.
- Define incomplete dominance and incomplete penetrance.
- Define what is meant by pleiotropy.
- Describe the inheritance of polygenic traits.
- Explain X-linked inheritance and give some examples of X-linked traits in humans.
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