1. Genetics

2. 1866- published findings on plant breeding and inheritance
Gregor Mendel
“Father of Genetics”
1866- published findings on plant breeding and inheritance
(During American Civil War)
Not discovered until early 1900s

3. Keys to Success Used “True-Breeding” pea plants (“purebreds”)
Always produce offspring with only one form of a trait
Studied only 1 characteristic at a time
Analyzed data mathematically

4. Pea Plant Reproduction
Self-pollination
Pollen fertilizes egg cells on same flower
1 parent
Cross-pollination
Pollen from flower of one plant fertilizes egg cells on another plant
2 parents

5. Mendel controlled breeding by cross-pollinating
To prevent self-pollination, Mendel removed male parts from a flower and dusted the flower with pollen from a different pea plant

6. Genetics:
The science of heredity
Heredity:
The biological inheritance of traits from parent to offspring

7. Genetics used for:
Preventing & treating diseases
Developing tougher plants to increase food production

8. Generations F1 generation F2 generation
P generation: parent generation
“true - breeding”
F1 generation
First generation of offspring
F2 generation
Second generation produced when f1 generations are crossed

10. Allele
The different forms of a gene
2, 3, or even 12 possible alleles per gene

11. Dominant
Form of the gene that is expressed
Capital letter: T

12. Recessive
Form of a gene (allele) that is only expressed in homozygous state
Lowercase letter: t

13. Homozygous
2 identical alleles for the same trait
Homozygous dominant: TT
Homozygous recessive: tt

14. Heterozygous
2 different alleles for the same trait
Tt : dominant trait will be expressed
Also called a “hybrid”

15. Genotype
Genetic make-up of an organism
The “letters”
Tt or TT or tt
Aa or AA or aa

16. Phenotype
Physical expression of a trait
Ex: Tall or Short

17. Examples:
TT = genotype
Tall = phenotype
tt = genotype
Short = phenotype

18. Law of segregation
The two alleles for each trait separate during meiosis
So, for each gene, an organism receives one allele from each parent - during fertilization

20. Part 2

21. Seed Color P generation cross: (“true - breeding”)
Yellow peas x Green peas
F1 generation:
All yellow
F2 generation:
6022 yellow : 2001 green
3 yellow : 1 green

22. Monohybrid cross Use a Punnett square to cross 2 hybrids: Yy x Yy
What are the possible genotypes?
What is the genotypic ratio?
What is the phenotypic ratio?

24. Dihybrid cross A Special type of two - factor cross YyRr x YyRr
(heterozygous for both traits)
You will always find the same phenotypic ratio. What is this ratio?

26. Law of Independent Assortment
Genes on separate chromosomes sort independently during meiosis
Alleles for seed shape separate independently from seed color alleles
So, seed shape is not connected to seed color