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Geneticslesson.

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December07,2015

Pulloutthekeywords.

PunnettSquares

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Studentsmustidentifythemeaningofthefollowingterms-alleles,dominant,recessive,parent,offspring,

Description
Thisisthegeneticmakeup
Theexpressionofthegenotype

phenotype,genotype,homozygous,heterozygous,andpunnettsquares.

Variationsofagene

LessonObjectives:
Analyzethecomponentsofgeneticvariabilityandhowtopredicttheoffspringcharacteristics.

Allele

Dominant

Genoptype

Recessive

Theallelethatmasksitscomplementary
theallelethatitismaskedbyitscomplementary

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Phenotype

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predicting offspring eye color

WhatisaPunnettSquare?
Pulltocheck

Maternal

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Bb
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monohybrid cross (one trait only) Arrange the maternal and paternal gametes and do the cross. What are the predicted

bbrown
key
bblue

Paternal

paternal bb

phenotypes for their offspring?

b
BB

bb

maternalbb

Bb

50%
Percentage of brown eyes:

75%

25%

100%

Percentage of blue eyes:

50%

25%

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polihybrid cross
Involves two or more traits, such as eye and hair color, earlobe shape and height,
etc.

brown eyes, curly hair, straight hair, blue eyes

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What are their possible genotypes?


BBCC
mom has straight hair and brown eyes
dad has curly hair and blue eyes

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bbCc

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