Module 6 Mendelian Genetics

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Reflect and Connect

This lesson has helped you to understand how to track two traits at the same time, while still following all of the inheritance patterns you have already learned. Complete the following Self Check to apply all of the principles that you have been mastering. 

Self-Check

Return to the Arizona biology project website and work through the dihybrid cross problem set. Each problem has a tutorial to help you, should you encounter any problems. These may take a little more time, but are worth the practice. Practice is essential to mastering the concepts and applications in genetics.

Lesson Summary

During this lesson you were to consider the following focusing question:

• How do scientists track the inheritance of more than one trait at a time?

By learning Mendel’s law of independent assortment, and how to build dihybrid Punnett squares, you can now follow the movement of two traits on different chromosomes at once.