Learning Objectives

After completing this lab, the students will be able to:

• Define basic genetic terminology.
• Set up a Punnet square to study a monohybrid cross.
• Use Mendelian analysis to determine the dominance of an allele.

Lab Readings

Read the following materials before you begin the experiment.

• Mendel’s Experiment and Laws by Sagar Aryal (Microbenotes.com)
• Module 11 Trait Inheritance. (Lumen learning)
  • 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
  • Assignment: Dragon Genetics

• Chapter 12 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 

• Chapter 13 Modern Understandings of Inheritance (Openstax)
  • Introduction 
  • 13.1 Chromosomal Theory and Genetic Linkage 
  • 13.2 Chromosomal Basis of Inherited Disorders 
  • Key Terms 
  • Chapter Summary 

• Beyond Mendel by Dave Krupp. http://krupp.wcc.hawaii.edu/
• Mendel and Meiosis by Bioninja.com.au

Videos

Watch the following videos before you start the lab activity.

1. View Genetics (Bozeman science) video below or on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya7h-Y-9l8c
2. View A Beginner’s Guide to Punnett Squares video below or on YouTube.
   https://youtu.be/Y1PCwxUDTl8
3. View Sex Linked Inheritance (Updated) Beverly Biology video below or on YouTube.https://youtu.be/9iVkuOUUxyw
4. View Blood type problems video below or on you tube.
   https://youtu.be/mgSG_Y8Pm9I

Lab Activity

View Human inheritance activity in Genetics Packet- Virtual Genetics Labhttps://youtu.be/51sP2OT9Rp0

Quiz

• Practice Punnett Square Problems by Dr. Rebecca Seipelt. http://capone.mtsu.edu/rseipelt/web212b/ho/212practpun.htm
• Simple Genetics Practice problems (Biology corner)