Genetics Brooker summary chapter 4 - Extensions of Mendelian inheritance

Genetics summary – VU BMS 2020/2021
Simone Zweers
Reference: Brooker, Genetics: Analysis and prinicples, 7th edition

Chapter 4 – Extensions of Mendelian inheritance




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, Genetics summary – VU BMS 2020/2021
Simone Zweers
Reference: Brooker, Genetics: Analysis and prinicples, 7th edition

- Mendelian inheritance pattern = law of segregation + law of independent assortment
- Simple Mendelian inheritance = one allele is dominant over the other

4.1: Overview of simple inheritance patterns
- Mendelian inheritance patterns, see picture below
- Geneticists want to understand Mendelian inheritance because:
o To predict the outcome of crosses
o To understand how the molecular expression of genes can account for an
individual’s phenotype




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