L8 | MENDELIAN GENETICS

• GREGOR MENDEL

  • Father of Genetics and Heredity
• GENOTYPE

  • Gene pair present in an individual.
  • Carries for a particular trait symbolized with a pair of letters.
• • Dominant allele - uppercase letter
  • Recessive allele - lowercase letter
• PHENOTYPE

  • Observable trait of an individual based on its genotype.
• PHENOTYPE

  1. Dominant
  2. Recessive
• DOMINANT

  • Trait that requires at least 1 dominant allele
• RECESSIVE

  • Trait that requires 2 recessive alleles