Mendelian Genetics
Study Guide
This worksheet is a set of vocabulary words and practice questions meant to encourage students to condense their notes into a more manageable form to study from. The questions and vocabulary are taken directly from the lecture Powerpoint for this unit.
Essential concepts:Genetics, heredity, Gregor Mendel, hybridization, dominant traits, recessive traits, genes, chromosomes, DNA, alleles, locus, Punnett square, homozygous, heterozygous, phenotype, genotype, testcross, law of segregation, monohybrid cross, dihybrid cross, law of independent assortment, probability, complete dominance, incomplete dominance, multiple alleles, codominance, pleiotropy, epistasis, polygenetic inheritance, pedigree, sex-linked trait.
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