BILD 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Mutual Exclusivity, Dihybrid Cross, Punnett Square

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Mendel discovered basic principles of heredity by breeding peas. Character: a heritable feature that varies among individuals (ex. flower color) Trait: each variant for a character (ex. Law of segregation: two alleles for a heritable character separate during gamete formation and end up in different gametes. If two alleles at a locus differ, then the dominant allele determines the organism"s appearance and the recessive allele has no effect on the organism"s appearance. Alternative versions of genes account for variation in inherited characters. For each character, an organism inherits two alleles of a gene, one from each parent. Punnett square: diagram for predicting the allele composition of all offspring resulting from a cross between individuals of known genetic make up. Homozygote (homozygous): an organism that has a pair of identical alleles for gene encoding a character. Heterozygote (heterozygous): an organism that has two different alleles for a gene. Phenotype: organism"s appearance, observable traits (physiological traits included)

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