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1 online resource (271 pages) |
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880-01 Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Key concepts in genetics -- Chapter 2 Monohybrid Inheritance -- 2.1 Key principles of genetic inheritance -- 2.2 A genetic explanation of the monohybrid cross -- 2.3 Representing genetic crosses -- 2.4 A Punnett square -- 2.5 Mendel's First Law of Segregation -- 2.6 Predicting the outcome of crosses -- 2.7 Chance and probability in genetics -- 2.8 The importance of large numbers -- 2.9 The test cross -- Summary -- Problems |
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880-01/(S Chapter 3 Extensions to Monohybrid Inheritance -- 3.1 Multiple allelism -- 3.2 Incomplete dominance -- 3.3 Representing crosses involving incomplete dominance -- 3.4 Explaining incomplete dominance -- 3.5 Redefining dominance relationships -- 3.6 Co-dominance -- 3.7 Lethal alleles -- 3.8 Are lethal alleles recessive or dominant-- 3.9 Human pedigrees -- 3.10 The multiplication rule -- Summary -- Problems -- Chapter 4 Dihybrid Inheritance -- 4.1 Two genes -- two characters -- 4.2 Test cross -- 4.3 Two genes -- one trait -- 4.4 Complementary genes -- 4.5 Epistasis -- 4.6 The chi-squared (χ2) test |
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6.4 The expression of X-linked genes -- 6.5 Representing crosses involving X-linked genes -- 6.6 Sex-linked inheritance patterns -- 6.7 Pedigree analysis of human X-linked recessive inheritance -- 6.8 Human X-linked dominant inheritance -- 6.9 Inactivation of the X chromosome -- 6.10 Y-linked inheritance -- Summary -- Problems -- Chapter 7 Linkage and Chromosome Mapping -- 7.1 Linkage and recombination -- 7.2 Representing dihybrid crosses involving linked genes -- 7.3 Explaining Morgan's results -- 7.4 The use of the test cross inlink age studies -- 7.5 Producing chromosomal maps |
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7.6 Using a trihybrid test cross to map genes -- 7.7 Interference and coefficient of coincidence -- 7.8 A few comments on physical mapping -- 7.9 Mapping human genes -- Summary -- Problems -- Chapter 8 Variation in Chromosomal Number and Structure -- 8.1 Changes in chromosome number: terminology -- 8.2 Aneuploidy -- 8.3 Monosomy -- 8.4 Trisomy -- 8.5 Polyploidy -- 8.6 Origins of polyploidy -- 8.7 Producing an autopolyploid -- 8.8 Producing an allopolyploid -- 8.9 Changes in chromosome structure -- 8.10 Changes in the arrangement of genes -- 8.11 Changes in the number of genes on a chromosome |
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Problems -- Chapter 5 The Chromosomal Basis of Inheritance -- 5.1 The structure of chromosomes -- 5.2 The number of chromosomes -- 5.3 Homologous pairs of chromosomes -- 5.4 Diploid and haploid cells -- 5.5 Two types of nuclear division -- 5.6 Mitosis -- 5.7 The biological significance of mitosis -- 5.8 Meiosis -- 5.9 The biological significance of meiosis -- 5.10 Revisiting Mendel's laws -- Summary -- Problems -- Chapter 6 Sex Determination and Sex Linkage -- 6.1 Sex-determining chromosomes -- 6.2 Other sex-determining mechanisms -- 6.3 The Y chromosome and sex determination in humans |
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8.12 Fluorescent in situ hybridization |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317417262 |
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1317417267 |
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