Inheritance Flashcards
1
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What is Mendal’s first law about inheritance
A
Segregation - the two alleles for a heritable characters segregate during gamete formation and end up in different gametes
2
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What is Mendel’s Second Law
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Independent assortment - allele pairs separate independently during the formation of gametes. This means that traits are transmitted to offspring independently of one another
3
Q
What is an insertion
A
An addition of nucleotide pairs in a gene
4
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What is a deletion
A
Loss of nucleotide pairs in a gene
