Know what is meant by the following terms: karyotype, sex chromosomes, autosomes, alleles, genes, homozygous, heterozygous, genotype, phenotype.
Be able to do a simple cross using a Punnett square, involving dominant-recessive inheritance, incomplete dominance, multiple-allele inheritance, and sex-linked inheritance.
Know the following genetic diseases: Dominant diseases: achondroplasia, Huntington's Disease; Recessive diseases: albinism, cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs disease; Incomplete dominance diseases: sickle-cell disease; Sex-linked diseases: color blindness, hemophilia, Duchenne's muscular dystrophy.
How is sex determined in humans?
What is polygene inheritance?
What is genomic imprinting?
What is extrachromosomal inheritance?
Describe amniocentesis and chorionic villi sampling, and what it is used for.