• Episode 146: Mendelian Genetics and Inheritance

  • Jul 29 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
  • Podcast

Episode 146: Mendelian Genetics and Inheritance

  • Summary

  • An introduction to classical Mendelian genetics, in which we discuss Mendel's experiments with peas and the laws of heredity that he discovered, including inheritance of one allele from each parent, the law of dominance, and the law of independent segregation. We then consider more complex cases of genetic inheritance, including sex-linked traits, incomplete dominance, codominance, and epistasis. The episode concludes with a discussion of quantitative traits determined by many genes, including how genetic variation is described, how sources of variance are identified using genome wide association studies, and the conceptual issues with defining heredity and separating the effects of genes from those of environment.

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