Transcript Standard 7

Mendel’s Laws of Probabilities
in Offspring
Standard 7
Ashley and Irum
Mendel’s Laws: A History
Gregor Mendel was born in Heinzendorf
bei Odrau, Czech Republic. He worked as a
gardener studying beekeeping and as a physics
teacher in an abbey. He was known as the
father of modern genetics. He studied about
dominant and recessive alleles in pea plants.
He wrote a paper called, “Experiments on
Plant Hybridization”. It was published in 1866.
After peas, he studied honeybees again. He
became an abbot in 1868, after which he
discontinued his scientific work on account of
his increased administrative responsibilities.
Mendel’s Laws
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The Law of
Segregation of
Characteristics:
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States that from a
pair of
characteristics, only
one can be
represented in a
reproductive cell.
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The Law of
Independent
Assortment:
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States that the
genes for two
different
characteristics are
inherited
independently.
Punnett Squares
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This table represents three
possible genotypes. It
indicates how likely a
particular offspring of this
mating is to have a certain
genotype.
The capital letters
represents the dominant
gene, while the lower case
letters represents the
recessive gene.
Incomplete Dominance
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In incomplete dominance, neither allele is
dominant so there is a blending of
__________
traits when two different alleles for the
______
same trait occur together.
Colors blend together
heterozygous
 (______________
individuals =
3rd phenotype)
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red
pink
white
Codominance is seen in these
pictures. All of the colors are
dominant and you get spots of
each one.
Codominance
Andalusian chickens show this pattern
of inheritance.
 If you cross a black (BB) chicken
 With a white (WW) chicken
 You get black+white speckled (BW) chicken
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Vocabulary
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Phenotype-the appearance of an organism, like
hair color or eye color
Genotype- the genetic make-up of an organism
and is shown with letters ( Bb would be a
heterozygous genotype)
Heterozygous-they got a DIFFERENT trait from
their mom than they did from their dad. (Bb)
Homozygous-They got the SAME trait from their
mom that they did from their dad ( BB or BB)
What’s the Difference?
 Homozygous
genes are represented as
either both capital letters (BB) or both
lower case letters (bb).
 Heterozygous genes are represented as
one capital letter and one lower case
letter (Bb).
Monohybrid Crosses
A monohybrid cross crosses only one
trait.
A 4 square Punnett Square is a
monohybrid cross
A A
A
a
Dihybrid Cross
A Dihybrid cross, crosses two different
traits at the same time
A Dihybrid cross is shown using a 16
square Punnett square
This one crosses fur color
& tail length.
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QUIZ TIME!!!
Take out your pens
and paper!!!!!!!!
#1: Egyptian Mau cats are genetically
crossed for certain lengths of fur. A breeder
knows that short hair is dominant over long
hair. If 75% of the kittens are born with short
hair, what are the parents’ most likely
genotypes?
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A: the male is a heterozygous, short-haired cat, and
the female a homozygous short-haired cat.
B: the male is a homozygous, long-haired cat, and
the female is a heterozygous, short-haired cat.
C: the male is a homozygous, short-haired cat, and
the female is a heterozygous, short-haired cat.
D: the male is a heterozygous, short-haired cat, and
the female is a heterozygous, short-haired cat.
D.
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The Answer is
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To answer this question you need to put the information
form each answer choice into a Punnett square & work it
out.
Short hair is dominant so we show it with a capital letter
Answer choice D would be as follows:
B
b
bb would be long haired (25%)
Bb & BB each have the dominant
B BB Bb
short haired trait ( 75%)
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b Bb
bb
#2: Brown eye color is dominant
over blue eye color. A heterozygous
brown eyed father and a blue eyed
mother have four children. Which
statement best describes the
children’s predicted phenotypes?
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A: 50% of children will have brown eyes, and 50%
will have blue.
B: 75% of the children will have brown eyes and
25% will have blue.
C: 75% of the children will have blue eyes and
25% will have brown.
D: 100% of the children will have brown eyes.
A
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The correct answer is
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The father is Brown eyed &
Heterozygous ( different trait from each
parent) Bb
Mother is blue eyed. It is recessive bb
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B
b
b Bb bb
b Bb bb
#3: Which genetic cross will
produce all heterozygous
offspring?
A: RR x rr
 B: rr x rr
 C: RR x RR
 D: Rr x Rr
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Hint: Try them out & see!!!!
A is the correct answer
R
r Rr
Rr
r Rr
Rr
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R
are heterozygous Rr
( different trait from each parent)
#4:Which of the following is
Homozygous?
A: RR
B: Rr
RR got the Same trait ( both
dominant) from each parent.
Homo means the same
#5:Which of the following is
Heterozygous?
A: RR
 B: Rr
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They got a different trait from
each parent ( one Dominant gene
R & one recessive gene r so they
are Hetero zygous
# 6 Read this dihybrid cross
What is the ratio
of yellow to green
peas in this cross?
 4 to 12
 3 to 1
 12 to 4
 You can’t tell
The correct answer is
C
__ yellow
12
4 green
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#7: What was one of Mendel’s
Laws?
A: The Law of Conservation of Mass.
 B: The Law of Segregation of
Characteristics.
 C: The Law of Recessiveness.
 D: The Law of Intensity of Alleles.
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The 2 Laws are the Law of
Segregation of Characteristics
and the Law of Independent
Assortment
#8: What things did he study?
A: Pea plants and human babies
 B: Pea plants and honeybees
 C: Chickens and lima beans
 D: Garbanzo beans and lima beans
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Mendel studied the genes of
Pea plants and honeybees.
#9: What is a Phenotype?
A: The appearance of an organism
like brown hair or light skin
 B: The genetic makeup of an
organism
 C:Blending
 D:Spots
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Your phenotype is your
physical appearance