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Mendelian Inheritance: Laws, Examples, and Human Genetic Disorders

Explore Mendel's laws of inheritance, including monohybrid and dihybrid crosses, the law of segregation, and the law of independent assortment. Learn about human genetic disorders, inheritance patterns, and the role of alleles and chromosomes.

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Mendelian Inheritance: Laws, Examples, and Human Genetic Disorders

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  1. Mendelian Inheritance

  2. Outline • Blending Inheritance • Monohybrid Cross • Law of Segregation • Modern Genetics • Genotype vs. Phenotype • Punnett Square • Dihybrid Cross • Law of Independent Assortment • Human Genetic Disorders

  3. Gregor Mendel • Austrian monk • Studied science and mathematics at University of Vienna • Conducted breeding experiments with the garden pea Pisum sativum • Carefully gathered and documented mathematical data from his experiments • Formulated fundamental laws of heredity in early 1860s • Had no knowledge of cells or chromosomes • Did not have a microscope

  4. Gregor Mendel

  5. Fruit and Flower of theGarden Pea

  6. Garden Pea TraitsStudied by Mendel

  7. Blending Inheritance • Theories of inheritance in Mendel’s time: • Based on blending: parents of contrasting appearance produce offspring of mixed appearance • Mendel’s findings were in contrast with this • He formulated the particulate theory of inheritance • Inheritance involves reshuffling of genes from generation to generation

  8. One-Trait Inheritance • Mendel performed cross-breeding experiments • Used “true-breeding” (homozygous) plants • Chose varieties that differed in only one trait (monohybrid cross) • Performed reciprocal crosses • Parental generation = P • First filial generation offspring = F1 • Second filial generation offspring = F2 • Formulated the Law of Segregation

  9. Mendel’s Monohybrid Crosses:An Example

  10. Law of Segregation • Each individual has a pair of factors (alleles) for each trait • The factors (alleles) segregate (separate) during gamete (sperm & egg) formation • Each gamete contains only one factor (allele) from each pair • Fertilization gives the offspring two factors for each trait

  11. Modern Genetics View • Each trait in a pea plant is controlled by two alleles (alternate forms of a gene) • Dominant allele (capital letter) masks the expression of the recessive allele (lower-case) • Alleles occur on a homologous pair of chromosomes at a particular gene locus • Homozygous = identical alleles • Heterozygous = different alleles

  12. Homologous Chromosomes

  13. Genotype Versus Phenotype • Genotype • Refers to the two alleles an individual has for a specific trait • If identical, genotype is homozygous • If different, genotype is heterozygous • Phenotype • Refers to the physical appearance of the individual

  14. Punnett Square • Table listing all possible genotypes resulting from a cross • All possible sperm genotypes are lined up on one side • All possible egg genotypes are lined up on the other side • Every possible zygote genotypes are placed within the squares

  15. Punnett Square ShowingEarlobe Inheritance Patterns

  16. Monohybrid Testcross • Individuals with recessive phenotype always have the homozygous recessive genotype • However, Individuals with dominant phenotype have indeterminate genotype • May be homozygous dominant, or heterozygous • Test cross determines genotype of individual having dominant phenotype

  17. One-Trait Test CrossUnknown is Heterozygous

  18. One-Trait Test CrossUnknown is Homozygous Dominant

  19. Two-Trait Inheritance • Dihybrid cross uses true-breeding plants differing in two traits • Observed phenotypes among F2 plants • Formulated Law of Independent Assortment • The pair of factors for one trait segregate independently of the factors for other traits • All possible combinations of factors can occur in the gametes

  20. Two-Trait (Dihybrid) Cross

  21. Two-Trait Test Cross

  22. Human Genetic Disorders • Autosome - Any chromosome other than a sex chromosome • Genetic disorders caused by genes on autosomes are called autosomal disorders • Some genetic disorders are autosomal dominant • An individual with AA has the disorder • An individual with Aa has the disorder • An individual with aa does NOT have disorder • Other genetic disorders are autosomal recessive • An individual with AA does NOT have disorder • An individual with Aa does NOT have disorder, but is a carrier • An individual with aa DOES have the disorder

  23. Autosomal Recessive Pedigree Chart

  24. Autosomal Dominant Pedigree Chart

  25. Incomplete Dominance • Heterozygote has phenotype intermediate between that of either homozygote • Homozygous red has red phenotype • Homozygous white has white phenotype • Heterozygote has pink (intermediate) phenotype • Phenotype reveals genotype without test cross

  26. Incomplete Dominance

  27. Multiple Allelic Traits • Some traits controlled by multiple alleles • The gene exists in several allelic forms (but each individual only has two) • ABO blood types • The alleles: • IA = A antigen on red cells, anti-B antibody in plasma • IB = B antigen on red cells, anti-AB antibody in plasma • I = Neither A nor B antigens, both antibodies

  28. Inheritance of Blood Type

  29. Polygenic Inheritance • Occurs when a trait is governed by two or more genes having different alleles • Each dominant allele has a quantitative effect on the phenotype; these effects are additive • Result in continuous variation of phenotypes

  30. Height in Human Beings

  31. Frequency Distributions inPolygenic Inheritance

  32. Terminology • Pleiotropy • A gene that affects more than one characteristic of an individual • Sickle-cell (incomplete dominance) • Codominance • More than one allele is fully expressed • ABO blood type (multiple allelic traits) • Epistasis • A gene at one locus interferes with the expression of a gene at a different locus • Human skin color (polygenic inheritance)

  33. Environment and Phenotype:Himalayan Rabbits

  34. Review assignment p.201 Reviewing the chapter (#1-11) p.202 Testing Yourself (#1-17) DUE TUESDAY

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