22. PEDIGREE ANALYSIS TUTORIAL

Question 1

1. What is a Pedigree?

Answer 1

• it is a family tree
• it describes the inter-relationships of parents and
  children across generations

Question 2

2. What do Pedigrees help to trace?

Answer 2

• inheritance patterns of particular traits

Question 3

3. What do Pedigrees predict?

Answer 3

• they predict the future offspring
• we can use the multiplication rule and the addition rule
  to predict the possibility of specific phenotypes

Question 4

4. What is the Multiplication Rule?

Answer 4

• this is used for independent events
• these are events that occur at the same time