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SCB 103 Lab 5 Content
Learning Objectives
After completing this lab, the students will be able to:
- (under development)
Lab Readings
Read the following materials before you begin the experiment.
- Trait Inheritance (Lumen Learning, module 11)
- Why It Matters: Trait Inheritance
- Introduction to the Father of Genetics
- Mendel’s Experiments and Heredity
- Characteristics and Traits
- Laws of Inheritance
- Heredity
- Introduction to Beyond Dominance and Recessiveness
- Non-Mendelian Inheritance
- Multiple Alleles
- Non-Mendelian Punnett Squares
- Introduction to Heredity and Disease
- Pedigrees and Disease
- Genetic Disorder and Pedigrees
- Polygenic Inheritance and Environmental Effects
- Introduction to Genetics and the Environment
- Effect of the Environment
- Pleiotropy and Human Disorders
- Putting It Together: Trait Inheritance
2. Mendel’s Experiments and Heredity (Openstax)
- Introduction
- 12.1 Mendel’s Experiments and the Laws of Probability
- 12.2 Characteristics and Traits
- 12.3 Laws of Inheritance
- Key Terms
- Chapter Summary
3. Modern Understandings of Inheritance (Openstax)
- Introduction
- 13.1Chromosomal Theory and Genetic Linkage
- 13.2Chromosomal Basis of Inherited Disorders
- Key Terms
- Chapter Summary
4. Mendel’s Experiment and Laws (microbenotes.com)
- I. Law of Segregation of genes (the “First Law”)
- II. Law of Independent Assortment (the “Second Law”)
- III. Law of Dominance (the “Third Law”)
5. Genetic Diseases : Chromosomal Basis of Inherited Disorders (openstax)
Genetic-Diseases6. Gene Therapy
Videos
Watch the following videos before you start the lab activity.
- Genetics (Bozeman science)
- Dihybrid Crosses and Linked Genes by Andrew Douch
- Gene Therapy by Professor Dave Explains.
- Modern Cloning Techniques by Fuse school.
- Biotechnology: Genetic Modification, Cloning, Stem Cells, and Beyond by Professor Dave Explains.
Lab Activity
Genetics-Inheritance-1- Human Mendelian Traits.
Use the chart to determined your phenotype and genotypes.
Please view The Genetics Inheritance presentation above as your reference. - Prepare these materials before you start the experiment: two brown bags, 15 red beans and 15 white beans.
Work on Monohybrid Crosses and The Punnett Square Lesson Plan (Univ. of Georgia) according to the manual.
Please view the images below as your references.
Quiz
- Mendelian Inheritance quiz by med.umich.edu
- Mendelian Inheritance quiz by tusculum.edu
