Inheritance Flashcards
Gregor Medel
He..
Mendelian Laws:
- Male & Female contribute equally to inheritance (diplioid)
- Traits can dissapear across generation
There are versions of each factor (Allele) - Traits can dissapear across generations(dominants versus recessive
Gametes are
Haploid
WHen are alleles seperated?
When haploid gametes form
REMEMBER Mendels Laws:
- Law of independent Assortment- seperation of alelles for one gene occurs independently of the seperation of alelles for any other given gene(they happen randomly)
- Law of segregation- alelles are seperated when haploid gametes form
- Principle of dominance- recessive alleles will be masked by dominant alleles
What is genotype
Aa, AA, aa
Phenotype
The physically expressed trait
What is sex linkage
sex-linked because their expression and inheritance patterns differ between males and females.
Polymerase chain reaction
1: Denaturation, heat seperated strands (no helicase)
2: Annealing, primers designate copying sequence
3: Elongation, Taq polymerase copies the sequence
Why do we want to amplify DNA sequences?
For eq. at crime scene you want to get more copies of the DNA
What is the aim of gel electrophoresis?
To seperate proteins or fragments of DNA according to size