BIOL 1020- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOL 1020
• Professor: Joy E.Stacey

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The testcross: pp or pp? individual could be either homozygous dominant or heterozygous, the answer is to carry out a testcross: breeding the mystery individual with a homozygous recessive individual. Lecture 24: this law applies only to genes on different, non-homologous chromosomes. Mendelian inheritance has it"s physical basis in the behavior of chromosomes: mitosis and meiosis were rst described in the late 1800s, the chromosome theory of inheritance states. Mendelian genes have speci c loci (positions) on chromosomes. Chromosomes undergo segregation and independent assortment: the behavior of chromosomes during meiosis was said to account for mendel"s laws of segregation and independent assortment. Morgan"s choice of experimental organism: several characteristics make fruit ies a convenient organism for genetic studies: A generation can be bred every two weeks. They have only four pairs of chromosomes: morgan noted wild type, or normal, phenotypes that were common on the y populations, traits alternative to the wild type called mutant phenotypes.