Genetics with the Basics of Breeding - M.P. Myhun - 2008

CHAPTER III. Inheritance of Chromosomal and Extrachromosomal Genes

Study Questions and Tasks:

1. What did G. Mendel establish as The basis of genetic analysis, and what KEY FEATURES OF this method did he define?

2. What Selection/46.html">Types of crosses do you know?

3. Explain the Patterns of independent Mendelian inheritance in a monohybrid cross.

4. What is The Essence of the hypothesis of the purity of Gametes?

5. Define: phenotype, genotype, Gene, allelic genes.

6. Explain The Mechanism of inheritance in incomplete dominance.

7. Explain phenotypic and genotypic segregation in a dihybrid cross.

8. Define Mendel's third law—the law of independent assortment.

9. Explain inheritance in a polyhybrid cross.

10. Characterize the gene as a "unit of heredity".

11. Characterize the Patterns of inheritance in gene interaction. Allelic and non-allelic gene interactions.

12. Sex, sex segregation, and sex Chromosomes.

13. Chromosomal, balance, and physiological theories of Sex Determination, and sex determination depending on the stage of ontogenesis.

14. Features of Sex determination in mammals.

15. Inheritance of sex-linked traits.

16. Gene linkage groups, Morgan's law.

17. Crossing Over, its genetic and cytological evidence, and biological significance.

18. Explain the patterns of inheritance under complete and incomplete

gene linkage.

19. Crossing-over frequency and construction of genetic maps.

20. What are the characteristics of extrachromosomal inheritance?



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