Unit 5 Heredity

Learning Objectives

1. Explain how meiosis results in the transmission of chromosomes from one generation to the next.

2. Describe similarities and/ or differences between the phases and outcomes of mitosis and meiosis.

3. Explain how the process of meiosis generates genetic diversity.

4. Explain the inheritance of genes and traits as described by Mendel’s laws.

5. Explain deviations from Mendel’s model of the inheritance of traits.

6. Explain how the same genotype can result in multiple phenotypes under different environmental conditions.

7. Explain how chromosomal inheritance generates genetic variation in sexual reproduction.