By now you should realize that when examining heredity (the passing of traits from two parents to their
offspring), you can predict the probability of the offspring inheriting specific traits by setting up a Punnett
square.
For this assignment, then, you should
explain how to set up a monohybrid cross (using all of the appropriate terms) and what types of ratios you
would expect to see (genotypic and phenotypic), and
explain what the different types of ratios actually mean.
Topic 9: In the last topic you learned about Mendelian inheritance (dominant/recessive, one gene for one trait) and in this topic you are following up on that information by looking at the difference between autosomal and sex-linked inheritance.
Therefore, for this assignment, you should
identify 3 autosomal dominant disorders, 3 autosomal recessive disorders, and 3 sex-linked disorders that are different from the ones we are using in the labs; and
make a table with the name, inheritance pattern (as mentioned in the previous sentence), description of, and prevalence (percentage of population that expresses the disorder--you can pick the population, but you need numbers and references) of the disorder.
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