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GENETICS

Explore the fascinating world of genetics from Gregor Mendel's experiments with garden peas to the complexities of human inheritance. Learn about genetic traits, sex-linked disorders, historic figures affected by genetics, pedigree animals, dominant/recessive traits, co-dominance, mutations, and more.

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GENETICS

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  1. GENETICS The study of inheritance

  2. Cell to DNA

  3. Deoxy-ribonucleic Acid

  4. Gregor Johann Mendel (1822 - 1884) was a member of an Augustinian order (Monastic) in Brunn Austria (Now part of Czechoslovakia).

  5. Garden Peas – Pisum sativum After analyzing 21,000 hybrid plants

  6. Genetic Traits

  7. Using the Punnett square

  8. Human Inheritance of Sex

  9. Human Inheritance of Sex

  10. Sex Linked Inherited Disorders • Baldness • Colour blindness • Hemophilia

  11. Genetics affects History

  12. Swollen joints Rasputin Russian Royal Family Russian Revolution – Sept 1917 Re-burial 80 years later

  13. Hawaiian Royal Family King Kamehameha Statue, Honolulu, Hawaii

  14. Hawaiian People

  15. Egyptian Royal Family Tutankhamun Ankhesenamun

  16. Incan Empire Tupac Amaru

  17. Pedigree Animals Race horses Breeding dogs

  18. Cattle Pedigree

  19. Dominant/Recessive Traits

  20. * Most common of about ten known types of muscular dystrophies.

  21. Co-dominance - eye colour

  22. Co-dominance – blood type

  23. Inheriting the father’s blood type Erythroblastosis fetalis

  24. Mutations hypertrichosis lanuginosa methemoglobinemia Sickle cell anemia Lack enzyme diaphorase

  25. Viral mutations

  26. Sickle Cell Anemia and Malaria

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