fundamental Biology

Chapter 11 Reading Assignment (Pages 206-227)

1. Write out the definitions for all the vocabulary terms for Chapter 11.

2. What is the title of the chapter?

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3. Read the Overview.

Who is Mendel?

What is the gene idea?

4. List the concept titles below restated as a question.

Concept 11.1-

Concept 11.2-

Concept 11.3-

Concept 11.4-

5. Read Concept 11.1.

Describe Mendel’s experimental approach.

How was this possible using pea plants?

What is the law of segregation?

Why are Punnett Squares useful? What do they tell us?

What is the law of independent assortment?

What type of test did Mendel use to discover the law of independent assortment?

6. Read 11.2 and answer the question you formed for this section.

7. Read Concept 11.3 and answer the following questions.

Describe incomplete dominance.

Compare incomplete dominance to codominance.

How are dominance and phenotype related?

Does dominance determine the frequency of alleles in a population?

How does inheritance work if there are more than two alleles?

How does inheritance work when more than one gene controls a trait?

What is the roll of the environment in determining phenotype?

8. Answer the question you wrote for the title of Concept 11.4. Be sure to give some specific examples.

9. Read “Summary of Key Concepts “ (including “Tips for Genetic Problems”) and then answer questions #1-20 in “Test Your Understanding”.