Introduction to Mendel's Experiments and Heredity
This text provides a brief introduction to Mendel’s experiments & the laws of probability; characteristics & traits; and laws of inheritance. Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this textbook.
Topics
- blending inheritance
- classical genetics
- dominant allele
- dominant lethal
- dominant phenotype
- epistatic effect
- first filial generation
- forked-line method
- gamete genotype
- garden pea
- garden pea hybridization
- gene cross
- independent assortment
- laws of probability
- lethality
- Mendelian cross
- Mendelian genetics
- monohybrid cross
- multihybrid fertilization
- multiple alleles
- mutant
- P1
- parental generation
- peas
- pedigree analysis
- polygenic inheritance
- probability method
- product rule
- recessive allele
- recessive gene
- recessive lethal
- second filial generation
- segregation of alleles
- sex linkage
- sex-linked trait
- sum rule
- trait-blending hypothesis
- unit factor
- X linkage
- X-linked trait
- haploid
- trait
- meiosis
- allele
- codominance
- continuous variation
- dihybrid
- discontinuous variation
- epistasis
- F1
- F2
- genotype
- hemizygous
- heredity
- heterozygous
- incomplete dominance
- law of dominance
- law of independent assortment
- law of segregation
- laws of inheritance
- linkage
- Mendel
- model system
- monohybrid
- phenotype
- Punnett square
- reciprocal cross
- test cross
- wild type
- Gregor Mendel
- characteristic
- probability
- recombination
- dominant
- hybridization
- homozygous
- gene
- recessive