Scioly DG (Mendelian)

Summarize Mendel's experiment:

He crossbred two varieties of peas to see the results

Summarize Mendel's first law:

Gametes combine randomly in forming offspring

What was Mendel's first law called?

Law of Segregation

What is Mendel’s Second law?

Law of Independent Assortment

Summarize Mendel's second law:

Alleles of one gene are distributed independently of one another

Who was the first researcher to unlock the secrets of inheritance?

Gregor Mendel

How can we predict the outcome of traits?

Punnet Squares

What is Epistasis?

Interaction between two or more genes to control a single phenotype

Many factors both genetic and environmental are involved in producing the trait or condition

Multifactorial inheritance