BIOL 1012 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Kidney Failure, Wild Type, Miscarriage
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9. 1 mendel"s laws: the study of genetics has ancient roots. Hippocrates sperm and then is passed on to the next generation. Said particles called pangenes travel from every body part to the egg or. Traits acquired during lifetime are passed onto offspring. Reproductive cells are not made up of particles from body cells. Changes in somatic cells don"t affect eggs or sperm. Ex: if you have braces on your teeth for years, there"s no chance that the cells in your mouth would transmit genetic info to your gametes to make your baby have straight teeth. Observed ornamental plants and realized that offspring get traits from both parents. Blending hypothesis - hereditary materials from male and female parents mix to form the offspring. Offspring of black lab and brown lab will be black, but next generation dogs could be brown. Does not explain how traits that disappear in one generation can reappear later on.
