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  1. Mendel’s Laws of Inheritance
    1. Mendel chose pea plants as his experimental organism
    2. Mendel studied seven traits that bred true
    3. Mendel followed the outcome of a single trait for two generations
    4. The 3:1 phenotypic ratio that Mendel observed is consistent with the segregation of genes, now known as Mendel’s law of segregation
    5. A Punnett square can be used to predict the outcome of crosses
    6. Mendel also analyzed crosses involving two different traits
    7. The Punnett square can also be used to solve independent assortment problems
    8. Modern geneticists are often interested in the relationship between the molecular expression of genes and the outcome of traits
    9. Pedigree analysis can be used to follow the Mendelian inheritance of traits in humans
  2. Probability and Statistics
    1. Probability is the likelihood that an event will occur
    2. The sum rule can be used to predict the occurrence of mutually exclusive events
    3. The product rule can be used to predict the probability of independent events
    4. The binomial expansion equation can be used to predict the probability of an unordered combination of events
    5. The chi square test can be used to test the validity of a genetic hypothesis





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