Laws of Inheritance

Laws of Inheritance

This text discusses pairs of unit factors, or genes; how alleles can be dominant or recessive; the equal segregation of alleles; independent assortment; how linked genes violate the law of independent assortment; and epistasis.

Topics

  • allele
  • autosomes
  • blending theory of inheritance
  • codominance
  • continuous variation
  • dihybrid
  • discontinuous variation
  • dominant
  • dominant lethal
  • epistasis
  • F1
  • F2
  • genotype
  • hemizygous
  • heterozygous
  • homozygous
  • hybridization
  • incomplete dominance
  • law of dominance
  • law of independent assortment
  • law of segregation
  • linkage
  • model system
  • monohybrid
  • P0
  • phenotype
  • product rule
  • Punnett square
  • recessive
  • recessive lethal
  • reciprocal cross
  • sex-linked
  • sum rule
  • test cross
  • trait
  • X-linked
  • epistatic effect
  • forked-line method
  • gamete genotype
  • gene cross
  • independent assortment
  • multihybrid fertilization
  • probability method
  • segregation of alleles
  • unit factor
  • meiosis
  • heredity
  • laws of inheritance
  • Mendel
  • Gregor Mendel
  • recombination
  • gene