Unit · year 1
BU-103 · Genetics
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The rules of inheritance, from Mendel's peas to linkage and sex.
Concepts in this unit
T-012
Mendel's law of segregation
Paired alleles separate into different gametes.
T-013
Mendel's law of independent assortment
Genes on different chromosomes are inherited independently.
T-014
The dihybrid cross
Predicting the 9:3:3:1 ratio of two traits.
T-015
Genetic linkage and recombination
Nearby genes tend to be inherited together.
T-016
Sex linkage
Inheritance of genes carried on the sex chromosomes.