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Understanding Heredity and Genetics

This document discusses heredity and genetics. It defines genetics as the branch of biology that studies hereditary information and examines similarities and differences among individuals. Heredity refers to the passing of characteristics from parents to offspring, such as eye color, height, hair texture, and skin color. The study of genetics is important because all living things are governed by the laws of heredity, which determine traits like gender, intelligence, physical characteristics, and disease potential. The document also summarizes Gregor Mendel's contributions as the "Father of Genetics" through his experiments breeding garden peas, which laid the foundation for understanding heredity and established basic principles of inheritance.

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Understanding Heredity and Genetics

This document discusses heredity and genetics. It defines genetics as the branch of biology that studies hereditary information and examines similarities and differences among individuals. Heredity refers to the passing of characteristics from parents to offspring, such as eye color, height, hair texture, and skin color. The study of genetics is important because all living things are governed by the laws of heredity, which determine traits like gender, intelligence, physical characteristics, and disease potential. The document also summarizes Gregor Mendel's contributions as the "Father of Genetics" through his experiments breeding garden peas, which laid the foundation for understanding heredity and established basic principles of inheritance.

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  • Heredity Overview
  • Genetics and Heredity Definitions
  • Specific Genetic Studies
  • Importance of Genetics
  • History and Figures
  • Experimental Methods in Genetics
  • Laws of Heredity

Heredity:

Inheritance and
Variation
GENETICS HEREDITY

Branch of biology Refers to the passing


that studies of characteristics
hereditary from parents to
information. offspring.
GENETICS HEREDITY

Examines and explains Hereditary


the similarities and characteristics
differences among Ex. Eye color, height,
individuals texture of hair, shape of
earlobes, skin color
VARIATIONS

Differences among Each individual does


individuals possess unique traits
belonging to the that differentiate
same species him/her from others
GENETICS
MENDELIAN
MOLECULAR
GENETICS
GENETICS
– Reviews the basic laws of
– Chemical nature of the
inheritance that were
gene, the mechanism of of
described by Gregor
transmission and its
Mendel
application
GENETICS
POPULATION GENETICS
– Focuses on the behavior of a particular
gene frequency in group of organism and
how gene frequency is affected by
environmental factors
Is the study of Genetics important?

All living things are governed by


the laws of Heredity.
GENETICS
 Gender  Intelligence
 Physical  Blood types
characteristics  Abnormalities
 Potential for some
diseases
Where did the study of heredity
started?
GREGOR JOHANN MENDEL
(1822 – 1884)

 “Fatherof Genetics”
 An Austrian Priest
 He laid the foundation for the
understanding of heredity and
variation
GREGOR JOHANN MENDEL
(1822 – 1884)

 He was the first to explain the


mechanism of heredity
 His findings still form the basis
of genetics, called Mendelian or
Transmission Genetics.
Why use the Garden pea?

The garden pea is an ideal subject for the study of genetics because
of the following reasons;
 Presence of observable traits with contrasting forms
 Produces many offspring in one cross
 Short life cycle
 Ease in manipulating pollination (cross – pollination)
MONOHYBRID MONOHYBRID
INHERITANCE CROSS

Inheritance involving Crossing of two pure


one pair of contrasting breeding garden peas
characters (alleles) Ex. One with purple
flower, the other with
white flower
PURE BREEDING PARENTAL
PLANTS GENERATION (P1)
 Produce only one form of
a particular when they
self – fertilize  First organisms that are
 Served as the Parental
crossed in a breeding
experiment
generation
GENETICS
In the study of Genetics, symbols are used to represent individual
organisms.
The first letter of either allele is used as a symbol. The symbols P
and p represent the genotype of the individual.
FIRST FILIAL GENERATION – the resulting plants after cross
pollinating the two P1 generation garden peas
GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE

 Gene responsible for


Observable
the observed trait expressions of the
trait
Written in symbol
 Ex. Purple or white
flower
HOMOZYGOUS HOMOZYGOUS
DOMINANT RECESSIVE

Gene carrying two Simply called Recessive


dominant alleles Gene carrying two recessive
Ex. RR alleles
(Round – seed parent) Ex. rr
(Wrinkled – seed parent)
HETEROZYGOUS

Gene carrying one dominant allele


and one recessive allele
Ex. Rr
(Heterozygous round seed)
PUNNET SQUARE
 A diagram made of boxes
 Used to predict the expected results of a genetic cross
by considering all the possible combination of gametes
in a cross.
 Named after its inventor Reginald Punnet

(Refer to your book, pg. 65 for an example)


LAWS OF HEREDITY
(Read more of each postulate on your book)

MENDELIAN POSTULATES – Sets of genetic laws and


rules that explain the factors affecting heredity
1. Rule of unit factor in pair
2. Principle of dominance and Recessiveness
3. Law of Segregation
4. Law of Independent Assortment
GOODLUCK WITH
YOUR EXAM !!

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