ANTH 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Zygote, Mitosis, Meiosis
1 Jun 2016
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Well known for his pea breeding experiment, where he carefully tracked phenotypic trait frequencies observed in each offspring generation and was able to come to two conclusions: Particulate inheritance - inheritance of parental traits happens because. 1. both parents have particles in their bodies that determine what their phenotype is, and each parent passes down a particle to the offspring, leading to the offspring inheriting the traits of the parents. Independent assortment - since every organism has 1 gene from the. 2. mother and 1 from the father - in a reproduction event between 2 organisms, each organism can only pass on 1 of their genes. Independent assortment says that each gene is equally likely to be transmitted to the offspring when gametes are formed. Furthermore, the inheritance of 1 particular trait does not affect the probability of inheriting another trait. From these conclusions, he stated his 2 laws:
