INTRODUCTION
glossary
MENDELIAN (MODERN): study of inheritance, patterns, pedigrees
MOLECULAR: activity of DNA, how genes work, protein synthesis, cell cycle
DIVERSITY- between/among species VARIATION- within species
WHO WAS GREGOR MENDEL?
long version
-father of modern genetics Austrian monk mid 19th century
-studied inheritance in garden pea Pisum sativum
SEVEN CHARACTERS two traits at each character
-true-breeding plants (parental generation)
-monohybrid crosses to produce filial generations
- numerical ratios led to development of two laws of inheritance
-description of dominant and recessive factors
Mendel's laws
Law of segregration Law of independent assortment
MAGIC SIX (in class)
PROBABILITY THEORY
-stated as value between zero (never happens) and one (always happens)
-all probabilities add to one
-must be mutually exclusive and include ALL possible events
The probability of two or more events happening together is the product of their individual probabilities. AND means multiply
The probability that an event could happen in two or more independent ways is the sum of the separate probabilities. OR means add
GAMES AND ACTIVITIES