Learning Targets:

1. I can describe Mendelian Genetics.

2. I can predict phenotypic expressions of
traits following simple patterns of
inheritance.
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GENETICS

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 Mendelian
Genetics

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Guide Questions:
1. Who discovered heredity?
2. What is a trait that is always expressed in an
offspring called?
3. What is a hidden trait called?
4. If both alleles are identical, what is it called?
5. If both alleles are different, what is it called?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mehz7tCxjSE&t=112s
Guide Questions:
1. Who discovered heredity?
2. What is a trait that is always expressed in an
offspring called?
3. What is a hidden trait called?
4. If both alleles are identical, what is it called?
5. If both alleles are different, what is it called?
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Gregor Mendel
Father of Genetics
He discovered how
characteristics are passed
down from one generation to
the next — namely, dominant
and recessive traits.
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Mendel’s Pea
Experiment

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 Mendel’s Law of Segregation

describes how individual

traits are inherited
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 Mendel’s Law of Segregation

states that all pairs of genes for all

traits of an organism separate
during gamete formation
Genotype - entire set of genes in
the cells of an organism
Dominant trait - one that shows up
in an individual, even if the
individual has only one allele that
produces the trait. (A)
Recessive trait - a trait that is
expressed when an organism has
two recessive alleles, or forms of a
gene. (a)
Phenotype –all the observable
characteristics of an organism that result
from the interaction of its genotype
 Alleles - are copies of
genes that influence
hereditary
characteristics

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 Three Genotypes in Mendelian Genetics
Homozygous Homozygous
Heterozygous
Dominant Recessive

AA
genotype where
Aa aa
Having two
consist of
an individual
dominant and copies of the
inherits two same recessive
copies of a
recessive
gene. allele for a
dominant gene gene
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 Phenotype
Phenotype refers to an individual’s observable traits.
A person’s phenotype is determined by their genotype.
Homozygous Homozygous
Dominant Heterozygous Recessive
Dominant trait is
Dominant expressed but
Recessive
trait is the offspring is a trait is
expressed carrier of the expressed
recessive trait.
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 Punnett
Square

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 PUNNETT SQUARE
a chart that allows
you to easily
determine the
expected percentage
of different genotypes
in the offspring of two
parents
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LET’S TRY
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Case no. 1
Two parents are
having a child. The
father has dominant
brown eyes (BB). The
mother has recessive
blue eyes (bb). Find
the possible eye color
of the child.
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 Case no. 1
Two parents are having a child. The father has dominant brown eyes
(BB). The mother has recessive blue eyes (bb). Find the possible eye
color of the child.

Father:
Brown Eyes
b b Genotype:
(BB)

Mother:
B B b Bb 100% Bb
Phenotype:
Blue Eyes
(bb) B Bb Bb
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Brown eyes
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 Case no. 2
Two plants are
crossed together. One
plant is tall
homozygous
dominant. The other
plant is a tall
heterozygous.
LET’S TRY Determine the
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 Case no. 2
Two plants are crossed together. One plant is tall homozygous
dominant. The other plant is a tall heterozygous. Determine the
resulting offspring.

Genotype: T t Phenotype:
50% TT
T TT Tt 100%
50% Tt Tall
T TTTt
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LET’S TRY
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Case no. 3
In fruit flies, red eyes are
dominant. (E)
White eyes are recessive
(e).
A female fly has white
eyes, and the male fly
has heterozygous red
eyes. Determine the
resulting offspring.
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 Case no. 4
The dominant allele (F)
for grey fur and
recessive allele (f) for
black fur.
The female dog is
heterozygous. The male
dog is homozygous
dominant.
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 Case no. 5
The dominant allele (F)
for grey fur and
recessive allele (f) for
black fur.
The female dog has
black fur. The male dog
has heterozygous fur.

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