PSYCH-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gregor Mendel, Cytosine, Guanine
24 Mar 2017
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Bacterium invaded archai and produced eukaryotes (that included mitochondria!) and led to the creation of multicellular creatures. The mitochondria provided enough energy to sustain organisms like us (expensive) Genetic material made of up of strands (adenine, thymine, guanine, One of each pair is from the father, one is from the mother. Unique set: x,y - determines our sex. Mother can only contribute an x, father can donate an x or y. Egg from mother contains 23 chromosomes, sperm from father contains. 23 chromosomes, combines to make a baby with 46 chromosomes. Spent a lot of time in a monastery. He did a lot of experiments with garden plants by crossing them. Published a paper with all the results and inferred the existence of genes, but it was published in a journal that wasn"t very well known. Blue eye gene is recessive, brown eye gene is dominant. Brbrxblbl brbl and brbl : genotypically mixed, phenotypically all brown.
