Extensions of the Laws of Inheritance
Mendel studied traits with only one mode of inheritance in pea plants.…
Law of Independent Assortment
Mendel’s law of independent assortment states that genes do not influence each other…
Law of Segregation
Observing that true-breeding pea plants with contrasting traits gave rise to F1 generations…
Monohybrid Cross and the Punnett Square
When fertilization occurs between two true-breeding parents that differ by only the…
Law of Dominance
Our discussion of homozygous and heterozygous organisms brings us to why the…
Laws of Inheritance
The seven characteristics that Mendel evaluated in his pea plants were each…
Introduction to Patterns of Inheritance
Figure 8.1 Experimenting with thousands of garden peas, Mendel uncovered the fundamentals…
Chromosome Structural Rearrangements
Cytologists have characterized numerous structural rearrangements in chromosomes, including partial duplications, deletions,…
Errors in Meiosis
Inherited disorders can arise when chromosomes behave abnormally during meiosis. Chromosome disorders…
Comparing Meiosis and Mitosis
Mitosis and meiosis, which are both forms of division of the nucleus…


