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Who was Mendel?
A 19th-century scientist known as the father of genetics, Mendel conducted experiments with pea plants to establish the laws of inheritance.
What laws did Mendel determine?
The laws of segregation and independent assortment.
Law of segregation
When alleles of a gene separate during gamete formation so each gene only gets 1 allelee
Independant assortment
When genes separate independently during gamete formation.
Autosomal
The trait isn’t on a sex linked chromosomeS
Sex linked
The traits are passed along the X or some times Y chromosome
Homozygous
an organism with 2 identical alleles
Heterozygous
Organisms that have 2 different alleles for a particular gene
Genotype
The central genetic code of alleles
Phenotype
The outward expression of a characteristic
hemophilia
a sex linked resssive trait meaning it’s different from general problems.
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