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Linked Genes Violate the Law of Independent Assortment
Although all of Mendelβs pea plant characteristics behaved according to the law of independent assortment,…
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Sex-Linked Traits
In humans, as well as in many other animals and some plants, the sex of…
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Multiple Alleles
Mendel implied that only two alleles, one dominant and one recessive, could exist for a…
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Extensions of the Laws of Inheritance
Mendel studied traits with only one mode of inheritance in pea plants. The inheritance of…
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Law of Independent Assortment
Mendelβs law of independent assortment states that genes do not influence each other with regard to…
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Law of Segregation
Observing that true-breeding pea plants with contrasting traits gave rise to F1 generations that all expressed…
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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,…
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Law of Dominance
Our discussion of homozygous and heterozygous organisms brings us to why the F1 heterozygous offspring were…
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Laws of Inheritance
The seven characteristics that Mendel evaluated in his pea plants were each expressed as one…