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Mendel’s Experiments . Part II: Law of Segregation Biology 12. Joke of the day:. Review: experiment 1. Mendel found that 100% percent of the F 1 ’s had purple flowers
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Mendel’s Experiments Part II: Law of Segregation Biology 12
Review: experiment 1 • Mendel found that 100% percent of the F1’s had purple flowers • Mendel found that one trait always appeared and the other trait vanish? The trait that appeared = dominant and he trait that disappeared = recessive
Mendel’s Second Experiment • Crossed the F1 generation with itself to produce the F2 generation
What happened? • Mendel found that the recessive trait appeared again • Mendel repeated this experiment many times and each time found that the F2 generation had the dominant trait 75% of the time and the recessive trait 25% of the time • This 3:1 ratio is known as the Mendelian ratio
Why did this happen? • Mendel realized that there must be two sets of instructions for each characteristic and that each parent would donate one set of instructions to offspring • Now we know that the sets of instructions are genes and that a fertilized egg would have two forms of the same gene for every characteristics and we call these two forms alleles.
Why did this happen? • During meiosis the alleles (one on each chromosome) for a trait separate into different gametes • Because one chromosomes of each pair goes to a different gamete • Offspring inherit one allele from sperm and one from egg • If the dominant allele is present it will be expressed (PP and Pp) • The recessive allele will only be expressed if both alleles are recessive (pp)
2. Law of Segregation • The two alleles of a gene pair are separated from each other during gamete formation
Mendel’s other principle: • 3. Principle of Independent Assortment • When more then one trait is studied in the same cross, the genes for each trait sort into gametes independently of the genes of the other traits
But today….. • We now know that Mendel’s principles of Dominance and Independent Assortment are not always true! • Some genes have incomplete dominance. • Some genes are linked on the same chromosomes so they do not sort independently.
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