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Chapter 14
Mendel and the Gene Idea
PowerPoint Lectures for
Biology, Seventh Edition
Neil Campbell and Jane Reece
Lectures by Chris Romero
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• Overview: Drawing from the Deck of Genes
• What genetic principles account for the
transmission of traits from parents to offspring?
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• The “particulate” hypothesis of inheritance: the
gene idea
– Parents pass on discrete heritable units, genes
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• Gregor Mendel
– Documented a particulate mechanism of
inheritance through his experiments with
garden peas
Figure 14.1
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• Concept 14.1: Mendel used the scientific
approach to identify two laws of inheritance
• Mendel discovered the basic principles of
heredity
– By breeding garden peas in carefully planned
experiments
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Mendel’s Experimental, Quantitative Approach
• Mendel chose to work with peas
– Because they are available in many varieties
– Because he could strictly control which plants
mated with which
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• Crossing pea plants
1
APPLICATION By crossing (mating) two true-breeding
varieties of an organism, scientists can study patterns of
inheritance. In this example, Mendel crossed pea plants
that varied in flower color.
TECHNIQUE
Removed stamens
from purple flower
2 Transferred sperm-
bearing pollen from
stamens of white
flower to eggbearing carpel of
purple flower
Parental
generation
(P)
3 Pollinated carpel
Stamens
Carpel (male)
(female)
matured into pod
4 Planted seeds
from pod
When pollen from a white flower fertilizes
TECHNIQUE
RESULTS
eggs of a purple flower, the first-generation hybrids all have purple
flowers. The result is the same for the reciprocal cross, the transfer
of pollen from purple flowers to white flowers.
Figure 14.2
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5 Examined
First
generation
offspring
(F1)
offspring:
all purple
flowers
• Some genetic vocabulary
– Character: a heritable feature, such as flower
color
– Trait: a variant of a character, such as purple
or white flowers
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• Mendel chose to track
– Only those characters that varied in an “eitheror” manner
• Mendel also made sure that
– He started his experiments with varieties that
were “true-breeding”
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• In a typical breeding experiment
– Mendel mated two contrasting, true-breeding
varieties, a process called hybridization
• The true-breeding parents
– Are called the P generation
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• The hybrid offspring of the P generation
– Are called the F1 generation
• When F1 individuals self-pollinate
– The F2 generation is produced
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The Law of Segregation
• When Mendel crossed contrasting, truebreeding white and purple flowered pea plants
– All of the offspring were purple
• When Mendel crossed the F1 plants
– Many of the plants had purple flowers, but
some had white flowers
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• Mendel discovered
– A ratio of about three to one, purple to white flowers,
in the F2 generation
EXPERIMENT True-breeding purple-flowered pea plants and
white-flowered pea plants were crossed (symbolized by ). The
resulting F1 hybrids were allowed to self-pollinate or were crosspollinated with other F1 hybrids. Flower color was then observed
in the F2 generation.
P Generation
(true-breeding
parents)

Purple
flowers
White
flowers
F1 Generation
(hybrids)
All plants had
purple flowers
RESULTS Both purple-flowered plants and whiteflowered plants appeared in the F2 generation. In Mendel’s
experiment, 705 plants had purple flowers, and 224 had white
flowers, a ratio of about 3 purple : 1 white.
Figure 14.3
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F2 Generation
• Mendel reasoned that
– In the F1 plants, only the purple flower factor
was affecting flower color in these hybrids
– Purple flower color was dominant, and white
flower color was recessive
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• Mendel observed the same pattern
– In many other pea plant characters
Table 14.1
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Mendel’s Model
• Mendel developed a hypothesis
– To explain the 3:1 inheritance pattern that he
observed among the F2 offspring
• Four related concepts make up this model
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• First, alternative versions of genes
– Account for variations in inherited characters,
which are now called alleles
Allele for purple flowers
Locus for flower-color gene
Figure 14.4
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Allele for white flowers
Homologous
pair of
chromosomes
• Second, for each character
– An organism inherits two alleles, one from
each parent
– A genetic locus is actually represented twice
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• Third, if the two alleles at a locus differ
– Then one, the dominant allele, determines the
organism’s appearance
– The other allele, the recessive allele, has no
noticeable effect on the organism’s
appearance
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• Fourth, the law of segregation
– The two alleles for a heritable character
separate (segregate) during gamete formation
and end up in different gametes
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• Does Mendel’s segregation model account for
the 3:1 ratio he observed in the F2 generation
of his numerous crosses?
– We can answer this question using a Punnett
square
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• Mendel’s law of segregation, probability and
the Punnett square
Each true-breeding plant of the
parental generation has identical
alleles, PP or pp.
Gametes (circles) each contain only
one allele for the flower-color gene.
In this case, every gamete produced
by one parent has the same allele.
P Generation
Appearance:
Purple flowers White flowers
Genetic makeup:
PP
pp
Gametes:
p
P
Union of the parental gametes
produces F1 hybrids having a Pp
combination. Because the purpleflower allele is dominant, all
these hybrids have purple flowers.
F1 Generation
When the hybrid plants produce
gametes, the two alleles segregate,
half the gametes receiving the P
allele and the other half the p allele.
Gametes:
This box, a Punnett square, shows
all possible combinations of alleles
in offspring that result from an
F1  F1 (Pp  Pp) cross. Each square
represents an equally probable product
of fertilization. For example, the bottom
left box shows the genetic combination
resulting from a p egg fertilized by
a P sperm.

Appearance:
Genetic makeup:
Purple flowers
Pp
1/
1/
2 P
F1 sperm
P
p
PP
Pp
F2 Generation
P
F1 eggs
p
pp
Pp
Figure 14.5
Random combination of the gametes
results in the 3:1 ratio that Mendel
observed in the F2 generation.
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2 p
3
:1
Useful Genetic Vocabulary
• An organism that is homozygous for a
particular gene
– Has a pair of identical alleles for that gene
– Exhibits true-breeding
• An organism that is heterozygous for a
particular gene
– Has a pair of alleles that are different for that
gene
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• An organism’s phenotype
– Is its physical appearance
• An organism’s genotype
– Is its genetic makeup
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• Phenotype versus genotype
Phenotype
Purple
3
Purple
Genotype
PP
(homozygous)
1
Pp
(heterozygous)
2
Pp
(heterozygous)
Purple
1
Figure 14.6
White
pp
(homozygous)
Ratio 3:1
Ratio 1:2:1
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The Testcross
• In pea plants with purple flowers
– The genotype is not immediately obvious
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• A testcross
– Allows us to determine the genotype of an
organism with the dominant phenotype, but
unknown genotype
– Crosses an individual with the dominant
phenotype with an individual that is
homozygous recessive for a trait
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• The testcross
APPLICATION An organism that exhibits a dominant trait,
such as purple flowers in pea plants, can be either homozygous for
the dominant allele or heterozygous. To determine the organism’s
genotype, geneticists can perform a testcross.

TECHNIQUE In a testcross, the individual with the
unknown genotype is crossed with a homozygous individual
expressing the recessive trait (white flowers in this example).
By observing the phenotypes of the offspring resulting from this
cross, we can deduce the genotype of the purple-flowered
parent.
Dominant phenotype,
unknown genotype:
PP or Pp?
Recessive phenotype,
known genotype:
pp
If PP,
then all offspring
purple:
If Pp,
then 2 offspring purple
and 1⁄2 offspring white:
p
1⁄
p
p
p
Pp
Pp
pp
pp
RESULTS
P
P
Pp
Pp
P
p
Pp
Figure 14.7
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Pp
The Law of Independent Assortment
• Mendel derived the law of segregation
– By following a single trait
• The F1 offspring produced in this cross
– Were monohybrids, heterozygous for one
character
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• Mendel identified his second law of inheritance
– By following two characters at the same time
• Crossing two, true-breeding parents differing in
two characters
– Produces dihybrids in the F1 generation,
heterozygous for both characters
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• How are two characters transmitted from
parents to offspring?
– As a package?
– Independently?
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• A dihybrid cross
– Illustrates the inheritance of two characters
• Produces four phenotypes in the F2 generation
EXPERIMENT Two true-breeding pea plants—
one with yellow-round seeds and the other with
green-wrinkled seeds—were crossed, producing
dihybrid F1 plants. Self-pollination of the F1 dihybrids,
which are heterozygous for both characters,
produced the F2 generation. The two hypotheses
predict different phenotypic ratios. Note that yellow
color (Y) and round shape (R) are dominant.
P Generation
YYRR
yyrr
Gametes
F1 Generation
YR

Hypothesis of
dependent
assortment
yr
YyRr
Hypothesis of
independent
assortment
Sperm
1⁄ YR
2
RESULTS
CONCLUSION The results support the hypothesis of
independent assortment. The alleles for seed color and seed
shape sort into gametes independently of each other.
Sperm
yr
1⁄
2
Eggs
1
F2 Generation ⁄2 YR YYRR YyRr
(predicted
offspring)
1 ⁄ yr
2
YyRr yyrr
3⁄
4
1⁄
4
1⁄
4
Yr
1⁄
4
yR
1⁄
4
yr
Eggs
1 ⁄ YR
4
1⁄
4
Yr
1⁄
4
yR
1⁄
4
yr
1⁄
4
Phenotypic ratio 3:1
YR
9⁄
16
YYRR YYRr YyRR YyRr
YYrr
YYrr YyRr
Yyrr
YyRR YyRr yyRR yyRr
YyRr
3⁄
16
Yyrr
yyRr
3⁄
16
yyrr
1⁄
16
Phenotypic ratio 9:3:3:1
Figure 14.8
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Phenotypic ratio approximately 9:3:3:1
• Using the information from a dihybrid cross,
Mendel developed the law of independent
assortment
– Each pair of alleles segregates independently
during gamete formation
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• Concept 14.3: Inheritance patterns are often
more complex than predicted by simple
Mendelian genetics
• The relationship between genotype and
phenotype is rarely simple
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Extending Mendelian Genetics for a Single Gene
• The inheritance of characters by a single gene
– May deviate from simple Mendelian patterns
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The Spectrum of Dominance
• Complete dominance
– Occurs when the phenotypes of the
heterozygote and dominant homozygote are
identical
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• In codominance
– Two dominant alleles affect the phenotype in
separate, distinguishable ways
• The human blood group MN
– Is an example of codominance
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• In incomplete dominance
– The phenotype of F1 hybrids is somewhere between
the phenotypes of the two parental varieties
P Generation
Red
CRCR
White
CW CW

Gametes CR
CW
Pink
CRCW
F1 Generation
Gametes
Eggs
F2 Generation
Figure 14.10
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1⁄
2
CR
1⁄
2
Cw
1⁄
2
1⁄
2
CR
1⁄
2
CR
CR 1⁄2 CR
CR CR CR CW
CR CW CW CW
Sperm
Multiple Alleles
• Most genes exist in populations
– In more than two allelic forms
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• The ABO blood group in humans
– Is determined by multiple alleles
Table 14.2
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Extending Mendelian Genetics for Two or More Genes
• Some traits
– May be determined by two or more genes
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Epistasis
• In epistasis
– A gene at one locus alters the phenotypic
expression of a gene at a second locus.
– Example; in a certain type of mouse, fur
colored is determined by 2 genes.
– Black (B) is dominant Brown (b).
– Pigment production (C) is dominant over non
pigment production (c). The presence of cc
results in an albino condition.
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• An example of epistasis

BbCc
BbCc
Sperm
1⁄
BC
4
1⁄
4
bC
1⁄
4
1⁄
Bc
4
bc
Eggs
1⁄
1⁄
4
BC
BBCC
BbCC
BBCc
BbCc
4
bC
BbCC
bbCC
BbCc
bbCc
1⁄
1⁄
4
Bc
BBCc
BbCc
BBcc
4
bc
BbCc
bbCc
Bbcc
9⁄
16
Figure 14.11
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3⁄
16
Bbcc
4⁄
bbcc
16