Intro to Mendelian Genetics

Why did Mendal use peas for his experiment?

  • Reproduces quickly
  • Easy to controle
  • Self fertilize (self pollinate)
  • cross -fertilize (mate with others)

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What are some true breeding plants?

  • When plants reproduce by self pollinniation on sexual reproduction with another true breeding plant, the offspring will have the same trail

What are hybrid plants?

  • Offspring of 2 different true breeding plants

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What did Mendel do?

  • Controlled experiments to test how traits were inherited through the use of true-breeding and hybrid pea plants
  • In his experiments, the male reproductive organs were removed to prevent self pollination
  • He then crossed 2 true breeding plants that differed in only 1 of the 7 hereditary traits he tested for

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What are F1 Generation? (Filal)

  • Hybrid offspring produced from crossing 2 true breeding plants 

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How is the F2 Generation produced?

  •  2 individuals of the F1 generation creates a new generation w mixed traits

  • This is the result of a monohybrid cross

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What is the Dominant Factor.?

  • Factor is expressed in all F1 generation

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What is the Recessive factor?

  • Factor that remained but was hidden in the F1 generation

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What is an Allele? 

  • Alternate versions of genes 

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What is Homozygous?

  • if both of you alleles are identical

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What is Heterozygous?

  • if 2 alleles are different

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What are dominant alleles represented as?

  • Dominant alleles are represented with uppercase letter 

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What are recessive alleles represented as?

  • Recessive alesis are represented with lowercase letters

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What is the Law of Segregation?

  • Each organism carries 2 factors one from each parent for each characteristic
  • Parent organisms donate 1 copy of each gene to their gametes

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What is a phenotype?

  • trait of an individual that is expressed

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What is a Genotype?

  • genes an individual has 

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