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Notes - Introduction To Genetics Mendel
Notes - Introduction To Genetics Mendel
Notes - Introduction To Genetics Mendel
Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk whose famous work was done in the garden
with ___________________.
During Mendels time people assumed that if a white squirrel and a black squirrel
were to have babies, the baby would be _________________.
After breeding purely purple flowering plants with purely white flowering plants
Mendel discovered three important things.
Conclusion #1 - The pea plants were inheriting a ____________________ of genetic
instructions one from each plant.
What do we call versions of a gene? ____________________
____________________ are the genetic instructions.
____________________ is the outward appearance of the flower.
The Father of Genetics Gregor Mendel
Conclusion #2 One allele is stronger than the other, in other wards
____________________. While the other allele was ____________________.
If a plant inherited one purple and one white allele, what color would the offspring's flowers
be? ____________________ (because it is dominant).
Conclusion #3 The trait being thrown into the mix is completely
____________________, however a dominant allele is always going to trump a
recessive allele.
Law of Segregation
Every individual possesses ____________________ alleles for any particular trait.
Which allele a parent gives their offspring is completely ____________________.
The offspring receives one allele from __________ and one from __________.
Of the two alleles the ________________ one is the trait the offspring will express.
If both alleles are ____________________, then the recessive trait will be expressed.
Traits that have been shown to operate under Mendels Laws are called
____________________ traits.
Punnett Squares (Example 1)
Punnett Squares are used to predict the outcome of a breeding experiment.
Example: What are the potential outcomes of crossing a pure purple flowering plant
with a pure white flowering plant?
Step 1 Naming alleles:
Use only one letter to represent the allele options.
The dominant allele is labeled with an upper case letter, while the recessive allele gets the lower case
version of the same letter.
What letter should we use for the purple allele?
What letter should we use for the white allele?
Step 2 Draw your Punnett Square and write one parents alleles on one side and the other
parents on a different side.
Step 3 Show cross.
Step 4 Determine potential outcomes.
What are the possible genotypes for the offspring?