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Pedigrees

Pedigrees. Pedigrees. Human Pedigrees. To analyze the pattern of inheritance followed by a particular trait, you can use a chart, called a pedigree , which shows the relationships within a family.

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Pedigrees

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  1. Pedigrees

  2. Pedigrees

  3. Human Pedigrees • To analyze the pattern of inheritance followed by a particular trait, you can use a chart, called a pedigree, which shows the relationships within a family. • A pedigree shows the presence or absence of a trait according to the relationships between parents, siblings, and offspring.

  4. Human Pedigrees • This diagram shows what the symbols in a pedigree represent.

  5. Human Pedigrees • This pedigree shows how one human trait—a white lock of hair just above the forehead—passes through three generations of a family. • The allele for the white forelock trait is dominant.

  6. Human Pedigrees • At the top of the chart is a grandfather who had the white forelock trait. • Two of his three children inherited the trait. • Three grandchildren have the trait, but two do not.

  7. Human Pedigrees • Because the white forelock trait is dominant, all the family members in the pedigreelacking this trait must have homozygous recessive alleles. • One of the grandfather’s children lacks the white forelock trait, so the grandfather must be heterozygous for this trait.

  8. Human Pedigrees • The information gained from pedigree analysis makes it possible to determine the nature of genes and alleles associated with inherited human traits. • Based on a pedigree, you can often determine if an allele for a trait is dominant or recessive, autosomal or sex-linked.

  9. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbhjow/b241/mendel_1.html • Biology.com

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