BIOL 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Model Organism, Pisum, Membrane Protein
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Inheritance, or transmission of traits from parents to offspring. Any characteristic of an individual, ranging from overall height to primary structure of a particular membrane protein. An appropriate model organism in order to study hereditary (transmission of traits) For mendel, it was pisum sativum (pea plant) Model organism is a species where individuals are: small short-lived inexpensive to care for able to produce large numbers of offspring easy to manipulate experimentally. Therefore, can continue experiments over several generations and to collect data from a large number of individuals. Experimental results from using model organisms applied to other spp. Two additional features of the pea that are good for experiments: can control which parents are involved in mating, can arrange matings between individuals that differed in easily recognizable traits such as flower colour/seed shape. Branch of biology that focuses on the inheritance of traits.
