"Attitude is a little thing that can make all the difference." 11/29/2018 Title: Biology 2/16/07 Objectives: To assess learning about some of the aberrations to Mendelian genetics and dihybrid crosses and continue to learn about pedigree analysis Class Topics Hand in Investigating Inherited Traits before the bell rings please Human traits "Attitude is a little thing that can make all the difference." Sir Winston Churchill Thursday, November 29, 2018 5:23 AM
Class Assignments Investigating Inherited Traits 2/16/07 11/29/2018 Class Assignments What By When Investigating Inherited Traits 2/16/07 W.S. “X marks the spot” 2/21/07 Chapter 8 Quiz 3 2/23/07 Due this class period Due next class period Due in the future
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11/29/2018 Links Sex-linked Inheritance quiz Blue People of Kentucky
More about polygenic traits 11/29/2018 More about polygenic traits Inheritance is complicated Phenotypes vary greatly Ex. Human skin color Ex. Human height
11/29/2018 From: http://campus.queens.edu/faculty/jannr/Genetics/images/polygenic.gif
11/29/2018 From: http://campus.queens.edu/faculty/jannr/Genetics/images/height.jpg
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Traits influenced by environment 11/29/2018 Traits influenced by environment Traits determined by nutrition Ex. Osteoporosis! Malaria Studied by scientists using identical twins
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Twins 2 eggs + 2 sperm - fraternal 1 egg + 1 sperm - identical 11/29/2018 2 eggs + 2 sperm - fraternal siblings - no closer genetically 1 egg + 1 sperm - identical same exact genome used in genetic studies conjoined or Siamese twins aren’t separated Twins
From: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=dbio.section.795 11/29/2018 From: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=dbio.section.795 X inactivation Lyon hypothesis In females one X chromosome becomes inactive (randomly) Barr Body Allows for different phenotypes with similar genotypes Calico cats Ectodermal dysplasia
11/29/2018 From: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?call=bv.View..ShowSection&rid=dbio.figgrp.797
Calico cat: State cat of Maryland! 11/29/2018 Calico cat: State cat of Maryland! From: http://www.thecalico.com/pictures/Pumpkin3.jpg http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/symbols/html/cat.html