What does P, F1, and F2 mean as it pertains to genetic crosses?
What is a gene?
What is an allele?
What is the diffeence between a genotype and a phenotype?
What is the difference between the following genotypes: homozygous dominant, homozygous recessive, and heterozygous?
What is Mendel's Principle of Segregation?
What is a punnett square?
What is a monohybrid cross?
Be able to perform a monohybrid-type genetic cross using a punnett square, and be able to express the results in the form of genotypic and phenotypic ratios.
What is a test cross and why do you perform it?
What is Mendel's Principle of Independent Assortment?
What is a dihybrid cross?
Be able to perform a dihybrid-type genetic cross using a punnett square, and be able to express the results in the form of genotypic and phenotypic ratios.
What is the product law (rule of multiplication)?
Be able to use the product law to determine the outcomes of crosses involving more than 2 genes.
What is incomplete dominance? Be able to perform a genetic cross involving incomplete dominance.
What is pleiotropy? What is an example?
How is ABO blood types inherited? How is this an example of both multiple alleles and codominance?What is meant by polygenic inheritance? What would be an example of this?
Can environment affect genetic outcomes? If so how?
What is meant by epistasis? What would be an example of this?
Describe the following recessively inherited disorders: Tay-Sachs disease, cystic fibrosis, phenylketonuria, sickle-cell anemia
Describe the following dominantly inherited disorders: neurofibromatosis, Huntington's disease
Describe amniocentesis and chorionic villus sampling. What are these procedures used for?