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Chapter 11
Section 1-3
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
11/20/2011

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Gregor Mendel
Definition
founder of modern genetics..garden pea plant expirement
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Mutation
Definition
permanent change in genes
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hybrid
Definition
nonidentical alleles for a trait
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heterozygous
Definition
nonidentical alleles (Aa)
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homozygous
Definition
identical alleles (AA)
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Dominant
Definition
usually presented by capital letters
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Recessive
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small letter
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what does P, F1, F2
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P-parents
F1-first generation offspring
F2-second generation offspring
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Monohybrid expirement
Definition
testcrosses that acheck for a dominance relationshop between two alleles at a single locus
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Probability
Definition
measure of the chance that a particular outcome will occur
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Punnet square
Definition
grid used to calculate probability
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Mendels' law of segregation
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- diploid cells have pairs of genes on pairs of homologous chromosome
- the two genes of each pairsepareate during meiosis and end up in different gametes
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Mendel's law of independent assortment
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many genes are sorted into gametes independently of other genes
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