Biology 101

Genetics Outline

Terms and Vocabulary

True breeding

P-generation

Hybridization

Hybrid

F1 generation

F2 generation

Monohybrid Cross

Allele

Locus

Dominant Allele

Recessive Allele

Homozygous

Heterozygous

Punnett Square

Dihybrid Cross

Principle of Segregation

Test cross

Incomplete Dominance

Codominance

Multiple Alleles

Pleiotropy

Epistasis

Polygenetic Inheritance

Concepts

Explain a monohybrid cross involving two true breeding parents of different varieties.

What are the four suggestions of Mendel’s results?

Describe the Principle of Segregation.  How is this Principle different than the Independent Assortment?

How does a Testcross work and what is it used to determine?

Be able to determine genotype and phenotype ratios for both monohybrid and dihybrid crosses.