for this lesson you are required to participate on all the activities, do all the labs and a Power Point presentation that will demonstrate what  you have learned with this chapter.

The State of California Standards and the goals for this chapter are the following.

3. A multicellular organism develops from a single zygote, and its phenotype depends on its genotype, which is established at fertilization. As a basis for understanding this concept, students know:

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1.  Students will describe the differences between incomplete dominance and codominant alleles .

2.  Students will be able to describe the difference between multiple alleles and polygenic inheritance.

3.  Students will describe how internal and external environments affect gene expression.

4.  Students will interpret testcrosses and pedigrees charts.

MORE WEB SITES

You can visit the following web sites to help you understand the concepts that you have to learn in this chapter.

To learn more about sex-linked traits you can visit http://www.biology.arizona.edu/default.html Then click  on Mendelian Genetics and then to Sex-linked Traits I and II.

Glossary of gentic terms: http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/DIR/VIP/glossary/pub_glossary.cgi

To download a pedigree chart: http://accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/pedigree.html

To practice genetic terms play games on the following web site: http://www.quia.com/jg/66181.html