Basic Principles of Heredity and Genetics
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Explore Mendel's principles of inheritance, genetic ratios, rules of probability, linkage, sex determination, and various genetic interactions such as incomplete dominance and epistasis.
Basic Principles of Heredity and Genetics
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Phenotype Genotype Locus Allele Dominant allele Recessive allele Homozygous Heterozygous Terminology
Mendel’s principles of inheritance • Segregation • During meiosis, alleles for each locus segregate • Independent assortment • Alleles of different loci distributed randomly into the gamete • Results in recombination • Production of new gene combinations not found in parent
Monohybrid cross • Cross between homozygous parents • Differ at one locus • Dihybrid cross • Differ at two loci • Test cross • Between individual of unknown genotype and homozygous recessive individual
Genetic ratios can be expressed as probabilities • Product rule predicts combined probability of independent events • Sum rule predicts combined probability of mutually exclusive events
Segregation • Results from homologous chromosomes separating during meiosis • Independent assortment • Orientation of homologous chromosomes on the metaphase plate determines how chromosomes are distributed
Linkage • Tendency for a group of genes on same chromosome to be inherited together • Recombination of linked genes • Results from crossing-over in meiotic prophase I • By measuring frequency of recombination, can construct linkage map of chromosome
Sex chromosomes • Cells of females of many species contain two X chromosomes • Males have single X chromosome and single, smaller Y chromosome • Y chromosome determines male sex in most species of mammals
Incomplete dominance • Heterozygote is intermediate in phenotype • Codominance • Heterozygote simultaneously expresses the phenotypes of both homozygotes
Geneinteraction in chickens
Norm of reaction • Range of phenotypic possibilities from a single genotype under different environmental conditions • Example is height in human • Can be modified by factors such as diet • Genes that affect height set norm of reaction • Environment molds phenotype within norm of reaction
Polygenic inheritance in human skin pigmentation