BIOL 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Thomas Hunt Morgan, Punnett Square, Mendelian Inheritance

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You should now be able to: define the following terms: tru breeding, hybridization, monohybrid cross, p generation, f1 f2. Menedelian inheritance has its physical basis in the behaviour of chromosomes. Mitosis and meiosis were first described in the late 1800s the chromosome theory of inheritance states: mendelian genes have specific loci (positions) on chromosomes chromosomes undergo segregation and independent assortment. The behaviour of chromes during meiosis was said to account for mendels laws of segregation and independent assortment. The first sold evidence associating a specific gene with a specific chromosomes came from. Morgans experiment with fruit flies provided convincing evidence that chromosomes are the location of mendels heritable factors. Several characteristics make fruit flies a convenient organisms for genetic studies: they breed at a high rate a generation can be bred every 2 weeks they have only four pairs of chromosomes, n=4 2n=8. Morgan notes wild typ e or normal, phenotypes that were common in the fly population.

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