Easy Outline of Genetics

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 Contents
 Chapter 1 THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF HEREDITY
 Genetics
 Cells
 Chromosomes
 Chromosome Number
 Chromosome Morphology
 Autosomes vs. Sex Chromosomes
 Cell Division
 Mitosis
 Meiosis
 Mendel's Laws
 Gametogenesis
 Animal Gametogenesis
 Plant Gametogenesis
 Life Cycles
 Chapter 2 SINGLE-GENE INHERITANCE
 Terminology
 Phenotype
 Genotype
 Allelic Relationships
 Dominant and Recessive Alleles
 Codominant Alleles
 Lethal Alleles
 Penetrance and Expressivity
 Multiple Alleles
 Single-Gene (Monofactorial)Crosses
 The Six Basic Types of Matings
 Conventional Production of the F2. TestcrossBackcross
 Pedigree Analysis
 Probability Theory
 Observed vs. Expected Results
 Combining Probabilities
 Chapter 3 TWO OR MORE GENES
 Independent Assortment
 Systems for Solving Dihybrid Crosses
 Gametic Checkerboard Method
 Genotypic and Phenotypic Checkerboard Methods
 Branching Systems
 Modified Dihybrid Ratios
 Higher Combinations
 Chapter 4 GENETIC INTERACTION
 Two-Factor Interactions
 Epistatic Interactions
 Dominant Epistasis
 Recessive Epistasis
 Duplicate Genes with Cumulative Effect
 Duplicate Dominant Genes
 Duplicate Recessive Genes
 Dominant-and-Recessive Interaction. Nonepistatic InteractionsInteractions with Three or More Factors
 Pleiotropism
 Chapter 5 THE GENETICS OF SEX
 The Importance of Sex
 Sex-Determining Mechanisms
 Sex Chromosome Mechanisms
 Genic Balance
 Haplodiploidy
 Single-Gene Effects
 Sex-Linked Inheritance
 Variations of Sex Linkage
 Sex-Influenced Traits
 Sex-Limited Traits
 Sex Reversal
 Chapter 6 LINKAGE AND CHROMOSOME MAPPING
 Recombination Among Linked Genes
 Linkage
 Crossing Over
 Chiasma Frequency
 Multiple Crossovers
 Limits of Recombination
 Genetic Mapping
 Map Distance
 Two-Point Testcross
 Three-Point Testcross
 Gene Order. Recombination Percentage vs. Map DistanceGenetic vs. Physical Maps
 Combining Map Segments
 Interference and Coincidence
 Linkage Estimates from F2 Data
 Sex-Linked Traits
 Autosomal Traits
 Use of Genetic Maps
 Predicting Results of a Trihybrid Testcross
 Crossover Suppression
 Absence of Crossing Over in Male Drosophila
 Balanced Lethal Systems
 Chapter 7 STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS
 The Binomial Expansion
 Single Terms of the Expansion
 The Poisson Distribution
 Testing Genetic Ratios
 Sampling Theory
 Sample Size
 Degrees of Freedom
 Chi-Square Test
 Chapter 8 CYTOGENETICS. The Union of Cytology with CytogeneticsVariation in Chromosome Number
 Euploidy
 Aneuploidy
 Variation in the Arrangement of Chromosome Segments
 Translocations
 Variation in the Number of Chromosomal Segments
 Deletions (Deficiencies)
 Duplications (Additions)
 Variation in Chromosome Morphology
 Isochromosomes
 Bridge-Breakage-Fusion-Bridge Cycles
 Ring Chromosomes
 Robertsonian Translocation
 Human Cytogenetics
 Chapter 9 QUANTITATIVE GENETICS AND BREEDING PRINCIPLES
 Qualitative vs. Quantitative Traits
 The Normal Distribution
 Average Measurements
 Measurement of Variability
 Variance.