G7 Ch 5.1-2 - Inheritance
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Transcript of G7 Ch 5.1-2 - Inheritance
Heredity• Organisms usually look like their parents.
• Parents pass some of their characteristic, or inherited traits, to their offspring
• Include: hair/fur color, height, eye color
• The passing of inherited traits from parent to offspring is know as heredity.
Mom Dad
Gene for Eye Color
We have at least two genes for every trait; one from mom and one from dad.
Gregor Mendel The Father of Genetics
• Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk in the 1800s.
• He experimented with pea plants
• Helped to understand how traits were passed from parent to offspring
Early Ideas about Heredity
• Blending Theory– Each parent contributed “factors” that were
blended in the offspring
Blending theory is not true for most traits.
Mendel’s Experiment
• Mendel did controlled breeding experiments with pea plants
Mendel’s Experiments
• Why pea plants?– Reproduce quickly
– Easily observable traits (flower color, pea shape)
– Mendel could control which pairs of plants reproduced
Pollination
• Sperm cells from the pollen fertilize egg cells in the pistil
• 2 Types
Self-pollination vs. Cross-pollination
• Self-pollination– Pollen from one plant lands on the pistil of a
flower on the same plant– This is still sexual reproduction
Cross-pollination
• Pollen from one plant lands on the pistil of a flower on a different plant
Mendel’s Experiments: Self-pollination
• Purple flower parent = 100% purple flower offspring
Mendel’s Experiments: Self-pollination
• White flower parent = 100% white flower offspring
Self-pollination Conclusion
• Mendel called these plants true-breeding plants
• True-breeding means that when a true-breeding plant self-pollinates, it always produces offspring with traits that match the parent– White flower parent = 100% white flower
offspring– Purple flower parent = 100% purple flower
offspring
Mendel’s Experiment: Cross-pollination
Conclusion from 1st generation cross
• Purple flower x white flower = 100% Purple flowers
Conclusion from 1st generation cross
• Mendel called these plants hybrids, because they contained both the purple and white genes
Conclusion from 1st generation cross
• Why did only the purple trait show?
Conclusion from 1st generation cross
• Let’s have these hybrid plants self-pollinate
Second Generation (Hybrid) Crosses
• For every three purple flower plant, there was 1 white flower plant
Second Generation (Hybrid) Crosses
• The trait had disappeared in the 1st generation, but reappeared in the 2nd
Hmmmm…I wonder why it
skipped a generation.
OMG! There’s a
3:1 pattern!
Mendel’s Conclusions
• Traits are control by two genetic factors (genes) that are inherited (passed down)
from the parents.
• Not all genetic factors are equal
• Purple flowers appeared even if the plant had one gene for purple and one for white.
Mendel’s Conclusions
• Mendel decided that purple gene blocked the white gene.
• He called it a dominant trait
• The other gene (white) would be called the recessive trait, because it was weaker.
Genes and alleles
• Today, we know the “genetic factors” that Mendel discovered are genes.
• Genes are sections, or part, of a chromosome that has genetic information for one trait.
• One gene can have different forms (white flowers and purple flowers)
• Different forms of a gene are called alleles
Phenotype
• Pheno- = “to show”
• Geneticists call how a trait appears, or is expressed, the trait’s phenotype.
• Example: – blue eye/ brown eyes
– Purple flowers/ white flowers
– Black hair/ blonde hair
Genotype
• Geno = genes
• The two alleles that control the phenotype of a trait
• Cannot see an organism’s genotype• Example:
– PP, Pp, pp
– BB, Bb, bb
Symbols for Genotypes
• The alleles for a trait are given a letter symbol based on the dominant form of the trait.
• Example:– Purple flowers / White flowers = P, p– Yellow seeds / Green seeds = Y, y
– Tall stem / Dwarf (short) stem = T, t
Symbols for Genotypes
• An uppercase letter represents the dominant trait
• A lowercase letter represents a recessive trait
• Examples:– Purple flower (P); white flowers (p)– Yellow seeds (Y); green seeds (y)– Green pods (G); yellow pods (g)
Using Ratios
• Ratio is 3:1 yellow seeds to green
• Does this mean if you grow 4 offspring 3 will have yellow seeds and 1 will make
green seeds?
Using Ratios
• The phenotype of one offspring does not effect the phenotype of the next.
• For each offspring there would be a 75% chance of it having the yellow phenotype and a 25% chance of it having the green
phenotype.
Using Ratios
• However, if you had a lot of time, like Mendel, and you grow 30,000 pea plants,
the ratio would be near 3:1
Pedigrees
• Other than a Punnett square, pedigrees are also used to model inheritance.
• Pedigrees show phenotypes of genetically related family members
Types of Dominance• For Mendel’s pea plants, the presence of
one dominant allele produces a dominant phenotype
• However, not all allele pairs have a dominant-recessive interaction
Incomplete Dominance
• Traits appear as a combination
• Definition: The offspring’s phenotype is a combination or mix of the parent’s
phenotype.
Multiple Alleles
• Some genes have more than two alleles
• Human blood types have 3 alleles– IA, IB, i
• This results in 4 blood types– A, B, AB, or O
• IA and IB are codominant
• i is recessive to IA and IB