Learning Objectives
Explain the difference between phenotype & genotype.
Explain the effects of chromosome segregation & independent assortment on gamete formation and the inheritance of alleles.
Explain the difference between dominant & recessive alleles.
Explain the difference between homozygous & heterozygous genotypes.
Use the genotype of an organism to predict its phenotype.
Identify the sex of individuals in a pedigree.
Use a pedigree to predict the genotype of individuals.
Use a pedigree to identify the inheritance pattern of a trait.
Explain how autosomal traits & X-linked traits are inherited differently.
Explain how incomplete dominance affect gene expression.
Explain how a quantitative trait is expressed.
Explain how the inheritance of linked genes is different from the inheritance of unlinked genes.
Draw Punnett squares to estimate phenotype and genotype probabilities.