Ke y content of Activity 5

1. Heredity is the passage of genetic traits from one generation

to the next.
2. Gregor Mendel (18221884) was a monk, teacher, and
scientist, who studied the relationship between heredity and
traits, mainly by experimenting with pea plants.
3. According to the laws of simple dominance, dominant traits
will appear in the phenotype of an organism, while recessive
traits are masked by the presence of a dominant trait.
4. Genes are sequences of DNA that encode for a particular
trait.
5. Dominance is not always complete. Incomplete
dominance refers to two traits that result in a third,
intermediate trait, while co-dominance refers to the full
expression of both traits in a heterozygote.
6. Some traits are determined by one gene, and others are
determined by multiple genes.
Key content of Activity 6
1. In all organisms, genes carry the instructions for
specifying
The characteristics of the organism.
2. Cells contain two copies of each gene. These
copies are called alleles.
3. Breeding generations of model organisms, such
as corn, Provides extensive
information about
the behavior of genes and the relationship
between genotype and phenotype.