Biology (Mader), 10th Edition

Chapter 11: Mendelian Patterns of Inheritance

Learning Outcomes

After studying this chapter, you should be able to accomplish the following outcomes.

Gregor Mendel

1. List the approaches to science that made Gregor Mendel's genetic experiments successful.

Mendel's Laws

2. Define Mendel's law of segregation.
3. Contrast dominant alleles with recessive alleles.
4. Define genotype and phenotype.
5. Explain how the law of probability applies to genetics.
6. Describe how a Punnett square can be used to predict the results of a genetic cross.
7. Describe how a pedigree may be used to determine the mode of inheritance of a genetic trait.
8. List some well-known genetic disorders in humans.

Extending the Range of Mendelian Genetics

9. Explain the inheritance pattern of traits where more than two alleles for the trait exist.
10. Define incomplete dominance and incomplete penetrance.
11. Define what is meant by pleiotropy.
12. Describe the inheritance of polygenic traits.
13. Explain X-linked inheritance and give some examples of X-linked traits in humans.