Mendelian Genetics

This AP® Biology content explores evidence for common ancestry and the inheritance of traits. In this pathway, learners will examine how shared biological features support the concept that all organisms share a common origin. Learners will also be introduced to Mendel’s laws of segregation and independent assortment to explain how genes and traits are passed from parents to offspring. By analyzing how fertilization, probability, and inheritance patterns influence outcomes, learners will connect Mendel’s principles to genetic variation and the prediction of traits across generations. Coming soon: new interactive content on autosomal modes of inheritance! AP® is a registered trademark of the College Board, which has not reviewed this resource.

Topics

• AP
• AP Biology
• AP Bio
• next generation science standards
• NGSS
• laws of Inheritance
• monohybrid
• dihybrid cross
• pedigrees
• branch-fork method
• phenotype
• heterozygous
• homozygous
• genotype
• dominant
• recessive
• Punnett square
• chromosome
• allele
• gene
• Mendel
• Gregor Mendel
• inheritance