Chpt. 16 Simple Patterns Of Inheritance Flashcards
particulate inheritance
the idea what hereditary traits are passed intact from one generation to the next
true breeding
homozygote
single factor cross
cross with patients of only one trait
P generation
parental generation
law of segregation
the two copies of a gene separate from each other during transmission from parents to offspring
testcross
researcher crosses an individual with an unknown genotype to a homozygous recessive individual and looks at the offspring to determine its genotype
law of independent assortment
the alleles of different genes assort independently of each other during gamete formation
locus
location of a gene on a chromosome
what causes independent assortment
the random alignment of chromosome pairs during meiosis 1
random sampling error
the difference between the observed and expected outcomes
product rule
the probability that two or more independent events will occur is equal to the product of their individual probabilities
sum rule
the probability that one of two or more mutually exclusive outcomes will occur is the sum of the probabilities of the possible outcomes
hemizygous
the single copy of an x linked gene in a male
mendelian inheretance
inheritance of genes that independently assort
pleiotropy
a mutation in a single gene that has multiple effects on an individuals phenotype
3 reasons for pleiotropy
▫expression of a single gene can affect cell function in multiple ways
▫gene may be expressed in multiple cell types
▫genes may be expressed at different stages of development
incomplete dominance
blend of traits
codominance
both traits expressed
sex influenced inheretance
an allele is dominant in one sex but recessive in the other (pattern baldness)
norm of reaction
effects of environmental variation in a phenotype
plant cell contains how many genomes
3
animal cells contain how many genomes
2
reasons Mendel used pea plants as a model
▫few traits with visible differences
▫self fertilizing
▫simple dom-rec inheritance pattern
maternal effects
mom provides gene products to developing egg cells