 | Goals and Objectives
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Understand the concepts of genotype and phenotype.- Explain how a person can have the allele for a particular trait but not show it.
Understand the basics of Mendelian genetics.- Determine if the children of a father and a mother with a certain gene combination will automatically show that trait.
- Explain how people inherit varying degrees of traits such as skin color.
Know single-gene and double-factor genetic methods of inheritance.- Explain the likelihood that a particular trait will be passed on to the next generation.
- Determine the chances that children will carry two particular genes.
Understand how a person's sex can influence the expression of his or her genes.- Explain why men and women inherit some traits differently.
Appreciate how genes and their alleles interact.- Define the concepts of dominant alleles and recessive alleles, codominant alleles, and X-linkage to explain inheritance patterns.
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