Patterns of Inheritance

2-26-2001


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Table of Contents

Patterns of inheritance
Mendel: founder of Genetics
Mendel's rediscovery
Why did Mendel study inheritance?
The source of inheritance?
Example: gender determination
Hypothetical units of inheritance
Example: Crossing arms & folding hands
Mendel's seven traits
"True breeding" plants
"True breeding" plants
Some genetic nomenclature
Some genetic nomenclature
Some genetic nomenclature
Some genetic nomenclature
Some genetic nomenclature

Author: Philip Farabaugh

Mendel's first law
Hybridizing true-breeding varieties
Hybridizing true-breeding varieties
Punnett square of a dihybrid cross
Test crosses
Punnett square of test cross
Punnett square of test cross
Mendel's second law
Dihybrid crosses (two genes differ)
Dihybrid cross
Dihybrid crosses (two genes differ)
Crossing the F1 plants
Dihybrid crosses segregate 9:3:3:1
Independent assortment
A WWW resource about Mendel
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