Complex Inheritance and

Human Heredity
Section 1: Basic Patterns of Human Inheritance
Section 2: Complex Patterns of Inheritance
Section 3: Chromosomes and Human Heredity
Human inheritance does not always follow Mendel’s laws.
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• Section 1: The inheritance of a trait over several generations
can be shown in a pedigree.
• Section 2: Complex inheritance of traits does not follow
inheritance patterns described by Mendel.
• Section 3: Chromosomes can be studied using karyotypes.
Essential Questions
• How can genetic patterns be analyzed to determine dominant or recessive inheritance
patterns?
• What are examples of dominant and recessive disorders?
• How can human pedigrees be constructed from genetic information?
• What are the differences between various complex inheritance patterns?
• How can sex-linked inheritance patterns be analyzed?
• How can the environment influence the phenotype of an organism?

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Essential Questions continued
• How are karyotypes used to study genetic disorders?
• What is the role of telomeres?
• How is nondisjunction related to Down syndrome and other abnormal chromosome
numbers?
• What are the benefits and risks of diagnostic fetal testing?

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 Vocabulary
Review New
• genes • carrier
• gamete • pedigree
• mitosis • incomplete dominance
• codominance
• multiple alleles
• epistasis
• sex chromosome
• autosome
• sex-linked trait
• polygenic trait
• karyotype
• telomere
• nondisjunction

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