Unit 5: Mendelian Genetics Exam

Our next exam will be this Friday November 21st! The exam will consist of ONLY 50 multiple choice questions. Topics worth investigating include:

• Gregor Mendel and his experiments on pea plants;
• Mendel's two laws: law of independent assortment & law of segregation;
• Basic Mendelian genetics (complete dominance/ dominant & recessive alleles; homozygous/ heterozygous/ test cross/ genotype/ phenotype/ monohybrid & dihybrid crosses);
• Modified Mendelian Genetics (codominance, incomplete dominance, and multiple alleles)
• Epistasis/ Polygenic inheritance/ Pleiotropy
• Autosomes/ Sex Chromosomes (Sex-linked genetic traits & sex determination)
• Linked genes
• Genetic recombination
• Gene mapping
• Mutations

Good luck studying!