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Gregor Mendel
(1822-1884)The Father of Genetics
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Gregor Johann Mendel
Austrian monkStudied the inheritance of traits in pea plantsDeveloped the laws of inheritanceMendel's work was not recognized until the turn of the 20th century
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Gregor Johann Mendel
Between 1856 and 1863, Mendel cultivated and tested thousands of pea plants
He discovered how heredity works – how organisms transfer their traits to their offspring.
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Mendel stated that physical traits are inherited as “particles”Mendel did not know that the “particles” were actually Chromosomes –DNA!
Particulate Inheritance
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Why peas, Pisum sativum?
Why Peas?Produce lots of offspring Grow quicklyCan be grown in a small area Can be artificially cross-pollinated
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Mendel and His Peas
• Mendel tested 7 traits:1. Flower color2. Flower position3. Seed color4. Seed shape5. Pod shape6. Pod color7. Plant height
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/traveling_mendel.htmp173 Life Science Textbook
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Mendel and His Peas
• He crossed a purple (PP) flowered plant with a white (pp) flowered plant. (Parent Generation)
http://biology.kenyon.edu/courses/biol114/KH_lecture_images/Mendel/Mendel.html
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Yes, copy the picture.
• The first generation (F1) of plants all had purple flowers.
• Where did the white color go??
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• Mendel crossed his first generation (F1 x F1) purple flowered plants together.
• In the second generation (F2) he had 3 purple flowered plants, and 1 white flowered plant.
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Yes, copy the picture.
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Below is a pedigree of two peas and their offspring.
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Mendel and His Peas
• Mendel noticed in the first generation, all of the white flowers seemed to disappear.
• He called this a recessive trait. • The white color faded away, and was not
expressed physically.• But - it showed up in the next
generation!
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Mendel and His Peas
• The purple that overpowered the recessive color was named the dominant trait.
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Mendel and His Peas
• Mendel found that each plant carried two sets of instructions for each characteristic (one from the “mom” and one from the “dad”).
• These sets of instructions are called alleles. (remember the “Genetics Notes?”)
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Vocabulary
- Heredity- the passing of traits from parent to offspring.- Homozygous – both alleles are identical. Also known as True-breeding. Ex: PP or pp- Heterozygous - each allele is different. Also known as hybrids. Ex: Pp
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Vocabulary
- P generation- the parent generation.- First-generation or F1- the very first set of
offspring from two parents- Second-generation or F2 – the offspring of
the kids from the F1 generation (grandkids)- Dominant trait- Represented with a capital letter, it overpowers the recessive trait.
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Vocabulary-Recessive trait- a trait that shows up only when two recessive alleles for the same characteristic are inherited-Genes- a section of DNA that carries hereditary instructions and is passed from parent to offspring-Alleles- multiple forms of the same gene
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VocabularyGenotype- the genetic code. Ex: PpPhenotype- the physical appearance. Ex: Purple FlowersPedigree – your family tree.Incomplete Dominance – a blend of the parents’ phenotypes.
Ex: Bb light brownbrown white
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VocabularyCodominance – When both phenotypes are visible. Ex: Hair that has both blond strands and brown strands. Karyotype – a chart of all your chromosomes lined up in order.Sex Chromosomes – chromosomes that determine a person’s gender. ex: XX and XYX-linked, or sex-linked inheritance – see p186 in Life Science Book.
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Let’s Review
1. If you crossed a true-breeding black rabbit with a true-breeding white rabbit, all of the offspring would be black. Which trait is dominant in rabbits: black fur or white fur?
2. Which trait is recessive?
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Answer
• The trait for black fur is dominant over the trait for white fur. The white fur trait is recessive.
http://www.buckeyevalleyfarms.freeservers.com/photo.html
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Google’s tribute to Mendel July 2011
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