Biology, Seventh Edition
Solomon • Berg • Martin
Chapter 10
The Basic Principles
of Heredity
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Terminology
•Phenotype
•Genotype
•Locus
•Allele
•Dominant allele
•Recessive allele
•Homozygous
•Heterozygous
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• Mendel’s principles of inheritance
• Segregation
–During meiosis, alleles for each locus
segregate
• Independent assortment
–Alleles of different loci distributed randomly
into the gamete
–Results in recombination
–Production of new gene combinations not
found in parent
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Seven characters in Mendel’s study of pea plants
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One
of Mendel’s
pea crosses
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Gene
loci
and their
alleles
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• Monohybrid cross
• Cross between homozygous parents
• Differ at one locus
• Dihybrid cross
• Differ at two loci
• Test cross
• Between individual of unknown
genotype and homozygous recessive
individual
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Monohybrid
cross in
guinea pigs
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Dihybrid
cross
in
guinea pigs
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Test cross in
guinea pigs
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• Genetic ratios can be expressed
as probabilities
• Product rule predicts combined
probability of independent events
• Sum rule predicts combined probability
of mutually exclusive events
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Rules
of probability
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• Segregation
• Results from homologous chromosomes
separating during meiosis
• Independent assortment
• Orientation of homologous chromosomes
on the metaphase plate determines how
chromosomes are distributed
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Chromosomal
basis for
segregation
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• Linkage
• Tendency for a group of genes on same
chromosome to be inherited together
• Recombination of linked genes
• Results from crossing-over in meiotic
prophase I
• By measuring frequency of
recombination, can construct linkage
map of chromosome
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Two-point
test cross to
detect linkage
in fruit flies
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Crossing-over
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• Sex chromosomes
• Cells of females of many species contain
two X chromosomes
• Males have single X chromosome and
single, smaller Y chromosome
• Y chromosome determines male sex in
most species of mammals
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Sex
determination
in mammals
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X-linked red-green colorblindness
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Dosage compensation in female mammals
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• Incomplete dominance
• Heterozygote is intermediate in
phenotype
• Codominance
• Heterozygote simultaneously expresses
the phenotypes of both homozygotes
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Incomplete
dominance
in four o’clocks
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Multiple alleles in rabbits
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Gene
interaction
in chickens
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Epistasis in Labrador retrievers
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• Norm of reaction
• Range of phenotypic possibilities from a
single genotype under different
environmental conditions
• Example is height in human
–Can be modified by factors such as diet
–Genes that affect height set norm of reaction
–Environment molds phenotype within norm
of reaction
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Polygenic
inheritance in
human skin
pigmentation
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