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