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Law of Independent Assortment

Mendel’s law of independent assortment states that genes do not influence each other with regard to the sorting of…

July 12, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Law of Segregation

Observing that true-breeding pea plants with contrasting traits gave rise to F1 generations that all expressed the dominant trait…

July 12, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Monohybrid Cross and the Punnett Square

When fertilization occurs between two true-breeding parents that differ by only the characteristic being studied, the process is…

July 12, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Law of Dominance

Our discussion of homozygous and heterozygous organisms brings us to why the F1 heterozygous offspring were identical to one…

July 12, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Laws of Inheritance

The seven characteristics that Mendel evaluated in his pea plants were each expressed as one of two versions,…

July 12, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Introduction to Patterns of Inheritance

Figure 8.1 Experimenting with thousands of garden peas, Mendel uncovered the fundamentals of genetics. (credit: modification of work…

July 12, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Chromosome Structural Rearrangements

Cytologists have characterized numerous structural rearrangements in chromosomes, including partial duplications, deletions, inversions, and translocations. Duplications and deletions…

July 12, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Errors in Meiosis

Inherited disorders can arise when chromosomes behave abnormally during meiosis. Chromosome disorders can be divided into two categories:…

July 12, 2021 · Rajil TL
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Comparing Meiosis and Mitosis

Mitosis and meiosis, which are both forms of division of the nucleus in eukaryotic cells, share some similarities,…

July 12, 2021 · Rajil TL