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BIOL 1001 Study Guide - Meiosis, Penetrance, Pleiotropy

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11 Mar 2014
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Temple University
Department
Biology
Course
BIOL 1001
Professor
Smutzer

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Important terms: genes linear stretches of dna that generally encode proteins, crossing over allows genetic recombination among homologous chromosomes (prophase 1, autosomes chromosomes 1 22 (non sex, hemizygous a diploid individual who has only one allele of a gene rather than the usual 2 (most of the x chromosome on males, genotype particular genes and individual carries, phenotype individuals observable traits (can"t always determine genotype by observing phenotype, alleles arise by genetic mutation, can be dominant, recessive, or co dominant, x and y are homologous chromosomes, heterozygous for 2 traits = 9:3:3:1, mendel, crossed true breeding (homozygous) purple and white flowered pea plants, found evidence of how parents transmit genes to offspring, dominant always covered recessive, correns botanist/geneticist who discovered principles of heredity, discovered, law of segregation: two alleles of a gene segregate into 2 gametes during non mendelian inheritance in 4 o"clock plants meiosis.

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