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11.6: Heredity

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    Learning Outcomes

    • Describe Mendel’s study of garden peas and hereditary
    • Understand how the inheritance of a genotype generates a phenotype
    • Apply the law of segregation
    • Apply the law of independent assortment

    Watch this video for a nice summary of Mendel’s contribution to the field of genetics and how a genotype leads to a phenotype.

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