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What is heredity |
The tendency of individuals to resemble their progenitors |
Kids and parents |
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Genetics |
Is that biological sciences which deals with the underlying causes of resemblance (heredity) as seen in the remarkable accuracy of reproduction and variation. It's also the study of genes, genetic variation and heredity in living organism |
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Who gave the name, genetics and in what year |
William bateson in 1905.(the pen of love) |
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Three basic areas of genetics |
Transmission genetics/mendelian genetics/classical genetics. Molecular genetics. Population genetics. |
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Why did mendelian use the garden pea |
The plant was easy to be cultured in open ground or in pots. It has short growth period and life cycle. The plant can be easily cross fertilized The plant has true or pure breeding strains that can be obtained from loclised merchants. |
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Gregor Mendel's book was published? |
In the year 1866(the shoe got grubby) |
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Why was mendelian successful |
He analyzed the reasons of failure of his predecessors and wrote down the programme of his hybridization. He carried out his hybridization experiment to F2 and F3 generations. Mendelian carefully kept the statistical records of all the experiment and analyzed them carefully. |
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Gregor mendel |
Gregor joham mendel, the morovian Augustinian monk who founded the modern science of genetics. |
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Mendel's first law of segregation |
States that allele pairs separate or segregate during gamete formation and randomly unite at fertilization. |
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Gene |
Genes are hereditary factors that condition the expression of any character. |
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What is genotype and phenotype |
Edit me... Hope you got it |
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Back cross |
Carried out by crossing both parents. Backcrossing is a crossing of a hybrid with one of its parents or an individual genetically similar to its parent, in order to achieve offspring with a genetic identity which is closer to that of the parent. |
It is used in horticulture, animal breeding and in production of gene knockout organisms. |
