Genetics Why your family is messed up?
Gregor Mendel Father of Modern Genetics Pea Plants Monk
Gregor Mendel Alternative versions of genes (alleles) account for variation
Gregor Mendel For Each Character, an organism inherits two alleles
Gregor Mendel If the two alleles are different, One is dominant and one is recessive
Gregor Mendel The two alleles segregate during gamete production
Sex-linked On the X chromosome Colorblindness Hemophilia Muscular dystrophy
Sex Influenced On a autonomic chromosome but affected by what sex you are Male pattern baldness
Blood Types
Linked Genes On a autonomic chromosomes near each other Red hair / freckles
Pleiotropy One gene has multiple effects Sickle-cell anemia
Epistasis A gene at one location alters the phenotypic expression of a gene on a second location Fur color
Polygenic Characters vary in a population along a continuum Skin Color
Recessively Inherited Traits Must inherit genes from both parents to display trait Albinism Tay-Sachs Cystic Fibrosis
Dominately Inherited Traits Must inherit genes from only one parents to display trait Achondroplasia Huntington’s disease
Fetal Testing
Nondisjunction Aneuroploidy
Human Disorders Down’s Syndrome Turner’s Syndrome Klinefelter’s Syndrome Trisomy X Syndrome
Cloning
Changes in Spatial Pattern Homeobox
Changes in Spatial Pattern Homeotic Genes (Hox Genes) position information
Changes in Spatial Pattern
Changes in expression patterns of four Hox genes over time
Stem Cells A Cell that’s job has not been determined Early embryonic Stem Cells Blastocyst Embryonic Stem Cells Fetal Stem Cells Umbilical Stem Cells Adult Stem Cells
Stem Cells For each new application of stem cell technology, we must consider: What are the benefits? What are the risks? Whom will the technology help? Does it have the potential to hurt anyone? What does this mean for me? For my family? For others around me? Why might others not share my view?
Stem Cells Ethical, legal and social issues. Ethical issues are those that ask us to consider the potential moral outcomes of stem cell technologies. Legal issues require researchers and the public to help policymakers decide whether and how stem cell technologies should be regulated by the government. Social issues involve the impact of stem cell technologies on society as a whole.
Cancer Causing Genes Oncogenes Proto-oncogene Tumor Suppressor Genes Faulty Tumor Suppressor Genes