mendelian genetics Flashcards
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gregor mendel
father of genetics
mendel documented inheritance in
pea plants
how did mendel bred pea plants
-cross-pollinated the true breeding parents
-raised seed and then observed traits (F1)
-allowed offspring to self-pollinate and observed the next generation (f2)
true breeding parents (P)
or pure breeding
p=
parental
F1
kids
F2
grandkids
self polinated
when plants use pollen to pollinate themselves to reproduce
f=
filial (kids)
heterozygous and homozygous are
genotypes
alleles
traits that come i alternative forms (diff version of genes)
locus
location
diffrent alleles vary in the sequence of
nucleotides at a specific locus of a gene
Purple-flower alelle and white flower allele aer
2 DNA variations of flower-color locus
dominant allele
-functional protein
-masks other alleles
its the trait that shows up
recessive allele
-allele makes a malfunctioning protein
the trait that does’nt show up
homozygous
same alleles (pp,PP)
heterozygous
different alleles (Pp)
genotypes vs. phenotypes
difference between how an organism “looks” and its genetics
phenotype
description of an organism’s trait the “physical”
genotype
description of an organism’s genetic makeup
mendel’s first law of heredity
law of segregation
law of segregation
-during meiosis,alleles segregate
-homologous chromosomes seperate
each allele for a trait is packaged
into a separate gamete