This session will cover the background and assumptions that Mendel made regarding the inheritance of particular traits, the hypotheses he developed, the experiments he performed to test the hypotheses, and the conclusions he made. In addition, how offspring acquire genes (and thus traits) from parents by inheriting chromosomes, and how the movement of chromosomes during meiosis is related to Mendel's rules of inheritance will be emphasized.

Learning Objectives

• To understand how experimentation resulted in Mendel's laws of inheritance.
• To accurately use common genetic terms.
• To predict the outcome of genetic crosses involving one, two or three unlinked genes.
• To design a genetic cross that can determine whether a trait is dominant or recessive.
• To design a genetic cross that can determine the genotype of an individual.
• To understand the relationship of meiosis to Mendelian inheritance and Punnett Squares.