EBIO 1210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Blending Inheritance, Scientific Method, Meiosis
28 Oct 2016
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Outline : the work of gregor mendel, the scientific method, mendel"s explanatory framework, probability and genetic outcomes, ah, if only it were so simple: complication on genes and traits. Blending inheritance = traits of offspring will be an average of the traits of the parents Problem : loss of variation predicts a population uniform in its traits. In science, what is the difference between an. Observation and a prediction : predictions are what you expect is a given hypothesis is correct; observations are what you actually find or measure. In science, what is required to test a hypothesis: gathering data and checking whether the data are consistent with or contradict predictions of the hypothesis. In science, what does it mean when observations contradict the predictions of a hypothesis: we should consider alternative hypotheses (if we weren"t already) Good experimental design: characters with discrete variants (ex - purple vs white flowers; either-or , started with true breeding varieties.
