7-Genetics

Objectives

Students should be able to:

• 1. Describe Mendel’s experiments, results, and conclusions.

  2. State Mendel’s 2 principles.

  3. Define probability, and explain how it is used to predict the results of genetic crosses.

  4. Explain if a dominant phenotype is homozygous or heterozygous.

  5. Use a punnett square to predict the results of monohybrid, dihybrid, incomplete dominance, codominance and sex-linked genetic crosses.

  6. Describe the inheritance of the ABO blood system and explain why the I^A and I^B alleles are said to be codominant.

  7. Distinguish between 3 different types of mutations.

  8. Identify two external causes of mutations.

  9. Identify the methods of detecting genetic disorders. (pedigree, karyotyping)

Worksheets

Principals of Heredity

Individual Traits

Practice Quiz

Practice Quiz KEY

Karyotyping worksheet links

Karyotyping Worksheet

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/disorders/

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/chromosomes/

Labs