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IV. Classical Genetics
A. The Genetic Facts of Life
1. homologous pairs
2. Diploid vs. Haploid
3. Chromosome determined gender
B. Cell Division Chapter 12, 13
1. The Cell Cycle
2. Mitosis (steps)
3. Meiosis (steps and sources of genetic variation)
C. Mendel’s life and work 14.1, 14.2
1. Mendel’s classic experiments
2. Mendel’s conclusions (and how they relate to current understanding)
D. Definitions 14.1
1. Gene
2. Allele
3. Genotype (homozygous dominant, heterozygous, homozygous
recessive)
4. Phenotype
E. Mendelian Inheritance (i.e. Mendelian trait) Chapter 14
1. Definition (one gene, two alleles, complete dominance, two
phenotypes, three genotypes)
2. Mendelian crosses and ratios
3. Using the Punnet square
4. Mendelian crosses to memorize: Bb x Bb, Bb x bb (the test cross),
BB x _ _
5. Monohybrid crosses
6. Dihybrid crosses (using Punnet square first and then the FOIL method)
7. Multihybrid crosses using the FOIL method
8. Predicting F1 genotypes from P1 crosses
9. Relative rarity of Mendelian traits
10. A few human mendelian examples Handout, 14.4
A. Non-Mendelian Inheritance 14.3, Chapter 15
1. Incomplete dominance
2. Sex-linkage, Sex-influence
3. Sex-linked and codominant
4. Multiple alleles
5. Polygenic traits, continuous variation
6. Non-disjunction 15.4
B. Genetic Diseases From Presentations
C. Autosomal linkage 15.3
1. Linkage maps
D. Using chi2 to evaluate the results of crosses Handout
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