Mendelian Inheritance of Human Traits
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Mendelian Inheritance of Human Traits
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Simple Recessive Heredity
• When a person gets two recessive alleles.
• Simple Recessive Genetic Disorder
–Cystic Fibrosis (thick accumulation of mucus in lungs and digestive tract)
–Tay-Sachs (disease of the central nervous system)
–Phenylketonuria-PKU (results in damage to central nervous system)
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Simple Dominant Heredity
• When a person gets at least one dominant allele.
• Simple Dominant Traits
–Tongue Rolling
–Huntingtons Disease (results in a breakdown of certain areas of the brain)
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Complex Patterns of Inheritance
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Incomplete Dominance
• Not all alleles are dominant and recessive like the ones Mendel studied in his pea plants. Some alleles are equally strong and neither are masked by the other.
• When both alleles are present, they are both expressed in the phenotype. The hybrid (heterozygote) is a blend of both alleles.
• An example of this is found in carnations. When purebred white carnations (WW) are crossed with purebred red carnations (RR), the result is a pink carnation (RW). When the heterozygote is produced, both alleles are represented by different capitalized letters.
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Incomplete Dominance
• a heterozygote has a different phenotype as the two homozygotes
–Example-Red flowers are RR, white are WW, the heterozygous condition, RW produces pink flowers
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Codominant
• Co-dominance, is a situation in which both alleles are equally strong and both alleles are visible in the heterozygous genotype.
• An example of co-dominance is found in chickens. When white chickens are crossed with black chickens, the result is not a grey chicken, but a chicken with both black and white feathers.
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Codominant
• in a heterozygote individual both phenotypes are expressed equally
– Example – cross a black chicken (BB) and a white chicken (WW) the heterozygote wouldn’t be grey, the chicken has both black and white feathers.
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codominance
EX.
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–Example: Blood type gene has three different alleles (each person has two of the three possibilities)
• Type A allele is dominant and produces A type protein on red blood cells
• Type B allele is dominant and produces B type protein on red blood cells
• Type O allele is recessive (defective) allele and produces no protein on red blood cells
Codominant, cont.
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• Blood types are controlled by multiple alleles. There are actually three different alleles; A, B, and O that determine a person's blood type. (Although there are three alleles possible, remember that each person only has two genes for every trait.)
• Of the three alleles, A and B show co-dominance. This means that a person possessing both A and B alleles as their genotype, has AB blood because both alleles are expressed in the phenotype. The O allele however, is recessive to both the A and B allele. Therefore, a person possessing both A and O alleles will have a blood type of A. Likewise, a person with both B and O alleles will be blood type B because B is dominant, and therefore, masks the O allele.
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Blood Type
Genotype Phenotype
AA or AO A
BB or BO B
AB only AB
OO only O
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Blood Type
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Sex-linked Traits
• There are 22 pairs of chromosomes in your body that are called autosomes.
• The other pair are called sex chromosomes. They are called “X” and “Y”.
• Female genotype = XX
• Male genotype = XY
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Sex-Linked Traits, cont.
• Some human traits are determined by genes carried on the sex chromosomes, most of these genes are on the X chromosome.
• Color blindness and hemophilia are examples of sex-linked traits.
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Sex-Linked Traits
X chromosome
Y chromosome
Boy or Girl? The Y Chromosome “Decides”
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What are Sex Linked Traits?
• In 1910, Thomas Morgan discovered traits linked to sex chromosomes in fruit flies.
• Some genes are attached to the X and Y chromosomes
• EXAMPLE: In humans, colorblindness and baldness are found on the X chromosomes
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Punnett Square: What sex will the offspring be?
X Y
X X X X Y
X X X YX
50% chance of a male or a female child.
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• - the inheritance pattern of a trait that is controlled by two or more genes.
–Examples in humans include
–hair color (AABBCC)
–eye color
–skin color
Polygenic Inheritance
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Pedigree Charts
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Pedigree Charts
A Pedigree chart is a graphic representation of genetic inheritance.
–kind of like a family tree
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Pedigree Charts, cont.
• When you carefully make a pedigree chart you should be able to tell which individuals are possible carriers and the probability that future offspring will express the trait shown.