What is genetics?
The study of heredity and variation
What are “risked” genes?
You are only susceptible to a disease if you come in contact with the trigger
How many base pairs long is the human genome?
3 billion
Phenotype
The physical feature
Genotype
The gene causing a phenotype
Dominant
Masks recessive gene
Recessive
Masked by dominant gene
What is Medel’s First Law of Segregation
“The alleles of a given locus segregate into separate gametes”
This shows that during Meiosis, alleles will split in to two
What is Mendel’s second law? (Law of independent assortment)
The alleles of one gene sort into gametes independently of the alleles of another gene