Mendel - Genetic Inheritance

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Genetics

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is the study of heredity in general and of genes in particular
e.g eye colour, hair colour

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Heredity

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the passing of traits from parent to offspring (INHERITANCE)

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Phenotype

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individual’s observable traits (such as height, eye colour, etc)

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Genotype

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the set of genes in our DNA which are responsible for a particular trait

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traits (phenotype) are influenced by MULTIPLE genes and the environment

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patterns of inheritance are complex and unpredictable

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A small number of traits are influenced primarily by a single gene

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They have predictable patterns of inheritance (Mendel’s laws of heredity)

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Mendel

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documented the mechanism of inheritance genetic in sexually reproducing organisms

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In order to study inheritance, Mendel chose to use peas:

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> they are easy to cultivate
Available in many varieties
Produce large numbers of offspring
Strict control over the mating/breeding

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Only study traits can be OBSERVED / obvious

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Pea colour – green vs yellow, with no other variants

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True breeding

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When the plants self-pollinate, all their offspring are of the same variety

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Hybridisation

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Mating, or crossing, of two varieties

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Monohybrid cross

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A cross between two parents that breed true for different versions of a single trait

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P generation

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True breeding parents

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F1 generation

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(first filial) Hybrid offspring of the P generation

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F2 generation

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(second filial) Offspring from the self-fertilisation of the F1 hybrids

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Mendel cross-pollinated two true-breeding varieties (P generations, parents), studying each trait one at a time

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Yellow and green pea colour

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All the F1 hybrids resembled only one of their two parents (yellow peas)

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Yellow pea was dominant

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Mendel allowed the F1 plants to self-fertilise and observed the F2 (2nd generation offspring)

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the trait that disappeared in F1, returned
75% of the offspring had yellow peas, 25% had green peas

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inheritance of traits is governed by hereditary factors: which we now call…

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genes

E.g. Stem height, pea colour

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These factors come in alternative versions and organisms have pairs of factor versions; called…

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alleles

tall/dwarf, yellow/green

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An organism must inherit two copies, or alleles, of each gene

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1 from its mother + 1 from its father

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He theorised, true-breeding parental strains, possessed a pair of identical alleles

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• Homozygous
• Heterozygous

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Homozygous

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An organism possessing two identical alleles for that trait (gene)
The F1 hybrid plants, on the other hand, had received two dissimilar alleles

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Heterozygous

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An organism possessing two different alleles for that trait (gene)

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Mendel’s second postulate – Dominance/Recessiveness
(2nd law)

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The dominant allele of the gene (denoted by a capital letter, e.g. T=TALL stem)
The recessive allele of the gene (denoted by a small letter, e.g. t=dwarf stem)

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The appearance, of organism depends on which versions of each allele it inherits

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Phenotype

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What type of chart do we use?

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Punnet chart

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In Heterozygous genotype (Tt), the dominant one dictates the organism’s phenotype Tt The stem will be tall

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heterozygous dominance
T ‘wins’ - more powerful

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tt

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SHORT
because two homozygous recessive alleles are present and therefore showing the phenotype

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Mendel’s third postulate – Independent Segregation

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two copies (alleles) of each gene present in the parent separate so that each gamete receives only one allele for each trait

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During fertilisation, a sperm cell carrying one or other allele fuses with an egg cell carrying one of the alleles to produce:

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a zygote with two alleles

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The two alleles for each trait separate (or segregate) during gamete formation and then

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> unite at random—one from each parent—at fertilisation

• In F1, half the gametes will get a yellow-pea allele and half will get a green-pea allele
• Four combinations are possible in F2, explaining the 3:1 ratio

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Mendel’s Postulates - Albinism

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The major form of albinism, Type II albinism follows the Mendel’s Law of Segregation (1 gene involved)

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Disorders that results in little or no production of the pigment melanin

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(colour of the skin, hair and eyes)

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What is the role of the dominant allele of the gene (A)

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encodes an enzyme involved in making melanin, the recessive one is non/low active (a)

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Alleles for Different Traits Segregate Independently

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Mendel’s law of independent assortment states that, during gamete formation, different pairs of alleles segregate independently of one another

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Alleles that segregate independently are packaged into gametes in all possible combinations

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4 combinations of gametes

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These gametes are allowed to combine at random to produce the F2 generation,

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Double dominant phenotype, two single dominants and the double recessive phenotype

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What ratio is the double dominant phenotype in?

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9:3:3:1