3.4 Inheritance Questions to be done after the Quiz on Wednesday 2/22

Please Answer the Following Questions in your Notebook:

1.  Describe how Mendel's experiments helped to develop modern principles of inheritance.
2.  Describe the importance of Mendel's use of quantitative data in his experiments.
3.  What does it mean to say that alleles segregate?
4.  Outline the principles of dominant, recessive, and co-dominant alleles.
5.  Show how to make a Punnett grid, using a labeled diagram.
6.   Do the DBQ's on pp. 173-174 (mice and "ladybirds")
7.  Read about the ABO blood groups on pp. 174-175 and summarize how they work.  This might be long!
8.  Do the DBQ on pp. 176-177.

If you get done with this, continue to read from 177 and on.  We will continue in class with causes of genetic diseases, types of diseases, sex-linked genes, and pedigree charts.