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Chapter Summary

• Mendel created an experiment to observe inheritance with the use of peas. The usage of peas was brilliant because they only exhibit 2 phenotypes for each trait that can be observed. Pea plants can self fertilize so if you wanted to cross over two different plants because you can take a stamen of one plant cross over to a different plant  to have cross fertilization which exactly what Mendel did.
•  The results of a monohybrid cross is a 3:1 phenotypic ratio which means our of the four possible out comes 3 of the flowers looked the same and one was different form the rest. However, the genotypic ratio is 1:2:1 which means there were 2 flowe rs that contained the same genotype and then 2 others that were totally different from the 3 other flowers. These rations only occur in monohybrid crosses with both gametes from each parent to be heterozygous at the F₂ Generation. 
• The principal of Segregation is that two alleles of a gene separate during gamete production allowing each gamete to contain only one allele.
• The results of a dihybrid is a phenotypic ratio of 9:3:3:1
• The  Law of Independent Assortment is where the alleles of different genes assort independently of each other during meiosis.
• Chromosome Theory of Inheritance
• explains how the steps of meiosis accounts for the inheritance patterns observed by Mendel. 
• genes are found on chromosomes contained on DNA 
• chromosomes are passed from parent to child with the replicated chromosomes from the parent go to the child
• diploid cell contains homologous pairs of chromosomes, the maternal and paternal sets are homologous 
• meiosis is the separation of the chromosomes into daughter cells that are haploid due to the homologues chromosomes segregating
• fertilization is the joining of 2 haploid cell to form a diploid cell

Useful Materials

• This video is awesome because its like another lecture class but we can use  punnet squares! :P But he seriously does explain things and with the use of the punnet square plus technology he really does make things visual. This is good for visual learners.
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• I could never understand how genetic probability worked but this video goes through part of it and the main site has way other videos to