Chapter 11: Mendelian Patterns of Inheritance
Gregor Mendel
1. List the approaches to science that made Gregor Mendel's genetic
experiments successful.
Mendel's Laws
2. Define Mendel's law of segregation.
3. Contrast dominant alleles with recessive alleles.
4. Define genotype and phenotype.
5. Explain how the law of probability applies to genetics.
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6. Describe how a Punnett square can be used to predict the results of a
genetic cross.
7. Describe how a pedigree may be used to determine the mode of inheritance
of a genetic trait.
8. List some well-known genetic disorders in humans.
Extending the Range of Mendelian Genetics
9. Explain the inheritance pattern of traits where more than two alleles for
the trait exist.
10. Define incomplete dominance and incomplete dominance.
11. Define what is meant by pleiotropy.
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12. Describe the inheritance of polygenic traits.
13. Explain X-linked inheritance and give some examples of X-linked traits in
humans.
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