Monday, December 7, 2009

Lecture, chapter 3 - Mendelian genetics


Today we talked about Mendel's principles, the principle of segregation and the principle of independent assortment. We discussed how Mendel performed the experiments that lead him to formulate his principles and the implications of doing so at the time he did it. We also talked about the re-discovery of his work in the early 1900s, the connection of his findings with the discovery of chromosomes, mitosis, and meiosis, and finally set the stage to discuss some of the variations on Mendel's principles (cases other than complete dominance, multiple alleles, etc.)

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