ANTHRO 7 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Carl Nägeli, Hugo De Vries, Carl Correns
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George mendel studied inheritance (1856-1863) with pea color (yellow or green) and texture (smooth or wrinkled) Variant: the particular form of a trait. For example, blue eyes, brown eyes, and gray eyes are variants of the trait eye color. Cross: in genetics, a mating between chosen parents. 1) the observed characteristics of organisms are determined jointly by two particles, one inherited from the mother and one from the father. Particles genes : a segment of the chromosome that produces a recognizable effect on phenotype and segregates as a unit during gamete formation. 2) each of these two genes is equally likely to be transmitted when gametes (eggs and sperm) are formed. The principle, discovered by mendel, that each of the genes at a single locus on a pair of homologous chromosomes is equally likely to be transmitted when gametes (eggs and sperm) are formed.
