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Inheritance
genotype Thegenetic constitution of an organism

phenotype expression of genotype genetic constitution and its interaction with the environme

Dominant Allele alwaysexpressed in phenotype


Recessive Allele onlyexpressed when homozygous in absence of dominantallele

dominant Andes If bothpresent bothexpressed in phenotype
Co

seelinkedgene genelocated on only I seechromosome


autosomally linkedgenes genes on same chromosome




whydoresults of breeding experiment deviateslightlyfromexpectedratio
fertilisation israndom
not largeenoughsamplesize



largedeviation
Genes autosomallylinked or sexlinked
Epistasis


HOWdoes meiosis createthesegametes
separates alleles chromosomes
Independent assortment means either of X x can so w My

, hybrid Inheritance
Mono
Inheritance of a single gene

parentsgenecould be BB homozygous dominant Bb heterozygous bb homozygous recessive

eachgametecontainsonlyone allele fromgenotype
eg Bb B or b



Mendel
peaplants
A purple a white recessive


Bred 2 pureparents AA aa
gametes Aand A a and a


A Aa Aa
Aaa a

F all heterozygous purple

Bred 2 F offspring Aa A AA Aa
a Aa aa


Fz 751purple 2St white

, DihybridInheritance
Inheritance of 2 genes on 2 different chromosomes homologous pairs
note homozygous bothgenes homozygous
heterozygous bothgenesheterozygous



parents gametes
RRYT RY
Rrty RY Ry ry ry
ry
rryy


example cross parents Harb t AA
Bb
151 s'han


AB Ab AB ab
AB AABB Bb
BBAa
AABb Aa 8 whitebig
Ab AA
Bb AAbb Harsh Aabb s whitesmall




examplecross 2x heterozygous AaBbl
AB Ab AB ab
AB AABB Bb AaBB
AA AaBb 9whitebig
Ab Bb
AA AAbb AaBb Aabb 3 whitesmall
aB AaBB Bb
Aa aare aaBb 3 blackbig
ab Aa
Bb Aabb aaBb aabb blacksmall


note dihybridcross between 2x heterozygous is always 9 3 3 I
ad ar ra rr
a dominantphenotype
r recessive phenotype
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