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Learning Objectives

  1. Explain the difference between phenotype & genotype.

  2. Explain the effects of chromosome segregation & independent assortment on gamete formation and the inheritance of alleles.

  3. Explain the difference between dominant & recessive alleles.

  4. Explain the difference between homozygous & heterozygous genotypes.

  5. Use the genotype of an organism to predict its phenotype.

  6. Identify the sex of individuals in a pedigree.

  7. Use a pedigree to predict the genotype of individuals.

  8. Use a pedigree to identify the inheritance pattern of a trait.

  9. Explain how autosomal traits & X-linked traits are inherited differently.

  10. Explain how incomplete dominance affect gene expression.

  11. Explain how a quantitative trait is expressed.

  12. Explain how the inheritance of linked genes is different from the inheritance of unlinked genes.

  13. Draw Punnett squares to estimate phenotype and genotype probabilities.