Thursday, February 11, 2016

Genetics

Genetics

HOMEWORK:

Write questions and summaries on each page of your notes. 

Tour of Basic Genetics


Tour of Basic Genetics
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basics/

DNA LAB
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/extraction/

Build Your DNA
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/molecules/builddna/

Molecules of Inheritance:
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/molecules/



Biology Genetics Additional Notes
Ferrell


Characteristics: Is the category of a trait
Ex. eye color, height, likes, dislikes

Traits: the physical social, and emotional qualities of an organism
            Ex. blue eyes, tall, hates carrots

Dominant Trait: when a majority of an organism shows the trait
            Ex. mos pea plants show as tall

Recessive Trait: When a minority of an organism shows the trait
            Ex. Few pea plants show as short

Alleles: all the possible choices for a characteristic (A single gene)
            Ex. Eye color, blue, brown, gray, green


GENOTYPE: allele pair  (TT, Tt, tt) GENE CODE… think letters
·       How the genes code for a specific trait
·       If the trait is DOMINANT it uses a CAPITAL LETTER (Control)
o   EXAMPLE: Tall (T)
·       If the trait is RECESSIVE it uses the same letter but lower case (Weak)
o   EXAMPLE: short (t)
·       Genotypes always have two letters
o   One from day and one from mom

THREE TYPES OF GENOTYPES
·       Purebred (homozygous) dominant: TT (Capital, Captial)
o   Has two dominant traits
o   EX. Dominant Tall (TT)
·       Purebred (homozygous recessive: tt (lower case, lower case)
o   Two recessive genes together
o   EX Recessive short (tt)
·       Hybrid (heterozygous) Tt (Captial and lower case)
o   Genes are mixed
o   EX hybrid tall (Tt)


PHENOTYPE: Physical Characteristics (What you can see)
·       The outward appearance
·       How an organism looks, acts, and feels
·       Deals with looks you can take a photo with


HEREDITY: The passing of traits from one generation to another

Gregor Mendel: The father of genetics

THREE GENERATIONS of INHERITANCE
1.     P Generations The Parental Generations: (Grandparents)
2.     F-1 First Filal (Parents)
3.     F-2  Second Filal (You)



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