Chapter 17
Mendelian Patterns of Inheritance
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Parts
- 1Mendel's peas and the law of segregation5 min
- 2Genotype, phenotype, and Punnett squares4 min
- 3Two characters and independent assortment3 min
- 4Chromosomes explain Mendel's laws4 min
- 5Reading human pedigrees4 min
- 6Sex chromosomes and X-linked traits5 min
- 7Dominance at the protein level4 min
- 8Incomplete dominance, codominance, and the environment4 min
- 9Epistasis and polygenic traits4 min
- 10Probability and the product rule4 min
Key terms
- allele
- dominant
- recessive
- true-breeding line
- single-factor cross
- two-factor cross
- F₁ generation
- F₂ generation
- law of segregation
- law of independent assortment
- genotype
- phenotype
- homozygous
- heterozygous
- Punnett square
- testcross
- chromosome theory of inheritance
- locus
- pedigree analysis
- sex chromosome
- X-linked gene
- sex-linked gene
- hemizygous
- X-Y system
- X-O system
- Z-W system
- haplodiploid system
- wild-type allele
- loss-of-function allele
- pleiotropy
- incomplete dominance
- multiple alleles
- codominance
- norm of reaction
- epistasis
- polygenic
- quantitative trait
- product rule
- random sampling error