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Gregor Mendel

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“Father of Modern Genetics”: monk who bred garden peas to study the patterns of inheritance

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Mendel’s Approach to Inheritence

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First, he studied traits that were clear-cut with no intermediates between varieties. second, he collected data from a large sample, with plants from several generations. Third, he applied statistical analysis.

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Blended Inheritance

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19th century belief that traits were passed in a mixture of fluids from parents to children and blended together

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Particulate Inheritance

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Mendel’s Theory: inherited characteristics are carried by discrete units, genes (he called them elements)

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Probability: Multiplication Rule

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To find the probability of two independent events happening, multiply the chance of one happening by the chance that the other will happen.

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Probability: Addition Rule

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When more that one arrangements of events producing the specific outcome is possible, the probabilities for each outcome are added together.

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Law of Dominance

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Mendel’s First Law: states that when two homozygous for two opposing traits are crosse, the offspring will by hybrid but will exhibit only the dominant trait and the trait that remains hidden is recessive

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Law of Segregation

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During the formation of gametes, the two traits carried by each parent separate.

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Monohybrid Cross

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(Tt)(Tt); the phenotype ratio from this cross is 3:1 (dominant to recessive); the genotype ratio is 1:2:1 (25% homozygous dominant: 50% heterozygous: 25% homozygous recessive)

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Testcross: (B/b)(b/b)

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Phenotype is 1:1 and genotype is also 1:1. Half will by heterozygous for this trait and half will be homozygous recessive.

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Testcross: (B/B)(b/b)

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Phenotype is 1 and genotype is also 1. All the offspring will be heterozygous for this trait.

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Law of Independent Assortment

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Applies when a cross is carried between two individuals for two or more traits that are not on the same chromosome.: Staes that during gamete formation the alleles of a gene for one trait segregate independently from the alleles for another trait. (REMEMBER: Meiosis I line up is random)

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Dihybrid Cross

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A cross between two F(1) plant because it is a cross between two individuals that are hybrid for two different traits.

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Dihybrid Cross: Phenotype Ratio

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9:3:3:1

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Incomplete Dominance

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Characterized by blending. Ex. a black animal mates with a white animal and produces grey babies.

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Codominance

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Both traits show. Ex. MN blood groups in humans, if you get M and N it’s not heterozygous both M and N are expressed.

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Multiple Alelles & Blood Types

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When there are more that two allelic forms of a gene. Ex. in humans there are 4 blood types determined by three alleles A, B and O. A and B are codominant and O is recessive.

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Blood Type A

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can be homozygous (AA) or hybrid (Ai)

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Blood Type B

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can be homozygous (BB) or hybrid (Bi)

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Blood Type AB

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codominance (AB)

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Blood Type O

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expressed as: ii

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Pleiotropy

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The ability of one single gene to affect and organisms in several ways.

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Pleiotropy: Frizzle Trait

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In chickens, the frizzle trait is a gene for a malformed feather. This mutation causes the development of feathers that cannot keep the animal warm and results in changes to several organ systems.

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Pleiotropy: Siamese Cats

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The same allele responsible for the body’s coloration is the same one responsible for the crossed eyes.

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Marfan Syndrome

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Pleiotropy in humans in which a single defective gene results on abnormalities of the eyes, skeleton, and the great blood vessels.

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Epistasis

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Two separate genes control one traits by one gene masks the expression of the other gene. The gene that masks the expression of the other gene is epistatic to the gene it masks.

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Epistasis: Guinea Pigs

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The gene for the production if epistatic to one for the deposition of melanin. The gene related to production has two alleles, C, which causes the pigment to be formed and, c, which does not. c/c results in no melanin produced. The second gene has an allele which causes, B, deposition of melanin and an allele, b, which causes deposition of a moderate amount of melanin. Neither B nor b can deposit melanin if C is not present.

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Polygenic Inheritance

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Characteristics that result from a blending of several separate genes that vary along a continuum. Ex. skin color, hair color and height. This always results in a bell-shaped curve of traits.

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Nature v. Nurture

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How much does the environment alter the expression of genes. Does genetic predisposition overpower the power of the environment or not?

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Sex-Influenced Traits

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Inheritance can be influenced by the sex of the individual. Males are more influenced by this than women because women can be carries for X-Linked traits. Ex. male pattern baldness

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Linked Genes

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Genes on the same chromosome that do not assort independently unless separated by a crossover event.

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Sex-Linkage

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Refers to X-Linked traits. Women can be carriers for Sex-Linked Recessive Traits while men cannot. Sex-Linked Dominant traits will show if the male or female has the affected X.

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Autosomes

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44 chromosomes

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Common Sex-Linked Recessive

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color blindness, hemophilia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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Sex-Linked Recessive: Daughters

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All daughter of affected fathers are carries. In order for a female to have a sex-linked recessive disorder she must inherit the gene from both parents.

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Sex-Linked Recessive: Sons

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Sons cannot inherit a sex-linked trait from the father because the son inherits the Y chromosome from the father. A son has a 50% change of inheriting a sex-linked trait from a carried mother.

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Chiasma

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The site where a crossover and recombination occur.

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What type of genes are most likely to be separated during a crossover event?

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Two genes that are far apart on the same chromosome.

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Map Unit & Linkage Maps

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Distance within which recombination occurs 1 percent of the time. It does not give information about the actual distance but it tells us the order which creates a Linkage Map.

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Pedigree

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Family tree that indicated the phenotype of one trait being studied for every member of a family. Geneticists use it to determine how a trait is inherited.

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Genetic Mosaic

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Easy in the development of the embryo of a female mammal, one X chromosome is inactivated in each somatic cell. This results in a genetic mosaic where some cells have one X inactivated and others have the other inactivated.

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Barr Body

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Dark spot of chromatin (the inactivated chromosome) on the outer edge nucleus on all the somatic cells in the female.

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Mutations

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Any changes in the genome. Can be responsible for caner or can occur during gametogenesis and affect future offspring.

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Gene Mutation

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Changes in the DNA sequence.

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Chromosome Mutation

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Show in karyotypes; changes in the normal distribution/shape of a chromosome.

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Phenylkenturia

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Autosomal Recessive: inability to break down the amino acid phenylalanine which requires elimination of it from the diet or mental retardation will occur

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Cystic Fibrosis

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Autosomal Recessive: 1/25 caucasians in a carrier and it is the most common lethal genetic disorder which is characterized by build up of extracellular fluid in the lungs, digestive tract, etc.

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Tay-Sachs Disease

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Autosomal Recessive: Caused by lack of an enzyme needed to break down lipids needed in normal brain function which results in seizures, blindness and early death and it’s common in Ashenazi Jews

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Huntington’s Disease

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Autosomal Dominant: degenerative disease of the nervous system resulting in early death and onset near middle age

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Hemophilia

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Sex-Linked Recessive: caused by the absence of one or more proteins necessary for normal blood clotting

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Color Blindness

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Sex-Linked Recessive: red-green colorblindness in rarely more than an inconvenience

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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

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Sex-Linked Recessive: progressive weakening of muscle control and lack of coordination

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Sickle Cell Disease

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Autosomal Recessive: point mutation in the gene for hemoglobin results in deformed red blood cells when oxygen tension is low which can cause tissues to be deprived of oxygen and carriers are resistant to malaria

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Down Syndrome

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47 chromosomes due to trisomy 21; mental retardation, characteristic facial features, prone to Leukemia and Alzheimers

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Turner’s Syndrome

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(XO) 45 chromosome due to missing sex chromosome; small stature, female

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Klinefelter’s Syndrome

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(XXY) 47 chromosomes due to an extra X chromosome; have male genitals but the testes are small and men are sterile

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Chromsome Deletion

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when a fragment lacking a centromere is lost during cell division

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Chromosome Inversion

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when a chromosomal fragment reattaches to its original chromosome but in reverse orientation

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Chromosome Translocation

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when a fragment of a chromosome becomes attached to a non-homologous chromosome

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Polyploidy

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when a cell or organism has extra sets of chromosomes

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Nondisjunction

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error that occurs during meiosis in which homologous chromosomes fail to separate as they should; one gamete receive two of the same chromosome and another receives no copy

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Aneuploidy

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abnormal amount of chromosomes; cancer cells almost always have extra chromosomes

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Trisomy

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chromosome present in triplicate

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Polyploid

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an organisms with extra sets of chromosomes

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Extranuclear Genes

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genes found in the mitochondria and chloroplasts; mitochondrial genes are inherited from the mother

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Extranuclear Gene Abnormalities

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Very severe because changes in mitochondrial DNA can reduce the amount of ATP a cell can make and cells such as nervous or muscle cells are especially vulnerable to this.

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