Objectives:
Learn the following key terms:
Genotype, Phenotype, Allele, Gene Locus, Gene, Homozygous, Heterozygous, Dominant,
Recessive, Law of Segregation, law of Independent Assortment, Trait and Character
The student will also be able to:
understand the rationale behind Mendel's experiments and why he chose the
garden pea for his experiments, understand Mendel's laws and be able to apply
them to monohybrid and dihybrid crosses, use Punnett Square and probability
crosses to solve simple genetic problems and understand when Mendel's laws
fail to apply.
