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Section 3: Modeling Mendel’s Laws

Explore how Punnett squares, probability calculations, and pedigrees are used to predict genetic outcomes, understand inheritance patterns, and analyze traits in plants and animals.

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Section 3: Modeling Mendel’s Laws

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  1. Section 3: Modeling Mendel’s Laws Preview • Bellringer • Key Ideas • Using Punnett Squares • Using Probability • Using a Pedigree • Summary

  2. Bellringer Since the dawn of agriculture, people have used selective breeding to improve crops and domestic animals. Modern applications of Mendelian genetics and gene technology have resulted in major changes in crops and animals. List some examples of selective breeding in domestic animals or crops that you know of. Explain how you might go about selecting for a particular trait.

  3. Key Ideas • How can a Punnett square be used in genetics? • How can mathematical probability be used in genetics? • What information does a pedigree show?

  4. Using Punnett Squares • A Punnett square is a model that predicts the likely outcomes of a genetic cross. • A Punnett square shows all of the genotypes that could result from a given cross. • The simplest Punnett square consists of a square divided into four boxes. • The combination of letters in each box represents one possible genotype in the offspring.

  5. Visual Concept: Punnett Square with Heterozygous Cross

  6. Using Punnett Squares, continued • In a monohybrid homozygous cross, all of the offspring will be heterozygous (Yy) and will express the dominant trait. • In a monohybrid heterozygous cross the genotypic ratio will be 1 YY : 2 Yy : 1 yy. The phenotypic ratio will be 3 : 1.

  7. Punnett Squares

  8. Using Probability • A Punnett square shows the possible outcomes of a cross, but it can also be used to calculate the probability of each outcome. • Probability is the likelihood that a specific event will occur. • Probability can be calculated and expressed in many ways. • Probability can be expressed in words, as a decimal, as a percentage, or as a fraction.

  9. Visual Concept: Calculating Probability

  10. Using Probability, continued • Probability formulas can be used to predict the probabilities that specific alleles will be passed on to offspring. • The possible results of a heterozygous cross are similar to those of flipping two coins at once.

  11. Using a Pedigree • A pedigree is a diagram that shows how a trait is inherited over several generations of a family. • Pedigrees can be used to help a family understand a genetic disorder. • A genetic disorder is a disease or disorder that can be inherited. • A pedigree can help answer questions about three aspects of inheritance: sex linkage, dominance, and heterozygosity.

  12. Visual Concept: Pedigree

  13. Using a Pedigree, continued • The sex chromosomes, X and Y, carry genes for many characters other than gender. • A sex-linked gene is located on either an X or a Y chromosome. • Traits that are not expressed equally in both sexes are commonly sex-linked traits. • Colorblindness is an example of a sex-linked trait that is expressed more in males than in females.

  14. Visual Concept: Sex Linkage

  15. Using a Pedigree, continued • If a person has a trait that is autosomal and dominant and has even one dominant allele, he or she will show the trait. • If a person has a recessive trait and only one recessive allele, he or she will not show the trait but may pass it on. • If a person is either heterozygous or homozygous dominant for an autosomal gene, his or her phenotype will show the dominant trait.

  16. Using a Pedigree, continued • If a person is homozygous recessive, his or her phenotype will show the recessive trait. • A recessive trait in a child shows that both parents were heterozygous carriers of that recessive allele.

  17. Summary • A Punnett square shows all of the genotypes that could result from a given cross. • Probability formulas can be used to predict the probabilities that specific alleles will be passed on to offspring. • A pedigree can help answer questions about three aspects of inheritance: sex linkage, dominance, and heterozygosity.

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