BIO152H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Gregor Mendel, Mendelian Inheritance, Gamete

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Concept 14. 1 mendel used the scientific approach to identify two laws of inheritance (pp. In the 1860s, gregor mendel formulated a theory of inheritance based on experiments with garden peas, proposing that parents pass on to their offspring discrete genes that retain their identity through generations. This theory includes two laws. : the law of segregation states that genes have alternative forms, or alleles. In a diploid organism, the two alleles of a gene segregate (separate) during meiosis and gamete formation; each sperm or egg carries only one allele of each pair. This law explains the 3:1 ratio of f2 phenotypes observed when monohybrids self-pollinate. Each organism inherits one allele for each gene from each parent. In heterozygotes, the two alleles are different, and expression of one (the dominant allele) masks the phenotypic effect of the other (the recessive allele). In a cross between dihybrids(individuals heterozygous for two genes), the offspring have four phenotypes in a 9:3:3:1 ratio.

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