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Lab 7 Exercise 11 Content
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)
- Chapter 13 Modern Understandings of Inheritance (Openstax)
- 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.
- View Genetics (Bozeman science) video below or on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya7h-Y-9l8c
- View A Beginner’s Guide to Punnett Squares video below or on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/Y1PCwxUDTl8 - View Sex Linked Inheritance (Updated) Beverly Biology video below or on YouTube.https://youtu.be/9iVkuOUUxyw
- 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)