Principles of Inheritance and Variation.

11 lessons100 min7 simulations10 practice questions

This chapter explains how characters pass from parents to offspring: Mendel's pea experiments and laws, deviations such as incomplete dominance, co-dominance and multiple alleles, the chromosomal basis of inheritance with linkage, and how sex is determined. It closes with mutation and human genetic disorders, both single-gene and chromosomal, and leads into the molecular view of the gene in the next chapter.

Also called: genetics · Mendelian inheritance · Mendel's laws · sex determination