BIOL 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Chromosome, Gene, Mendelian Inheritance

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The genes for different traits are lined up along the chromosomes. By having many genes and alleles determine each phenotype. Most of the traits that we see in a population are continuous traits. (mendel explains the theory on the segregation of discrete traits). The inheritance of continuous traits is a little bit more complicated: mendel talked about traits that had dominant and recessive characteristics over each other"s, but some traits don"t show this dominance inheritance. Example: cross red and white flowers and we get pink flowers (not white or red). It is an intermediate phenotype between the two parent phenotypes. If we cross a pink to a white flower, we get a white and a pink flower in equal probability . Whereas, if we cross two pink flowers together: we get white, pink and red. It turned out that the heterozygous flowers showed an intermediate trait semi- dominant trait rather than showing a dominant trait.

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