Inheritance: Dominant and Recessive Traits
Students will use Punnett squares to predict the inheritance patterns of dominant and recessive traits.
Key Questions
- Analyze how dominant alleles mask the expression of recessive alleles.
- Predict the phenotypic and genotypic ratios of offspring from specific parental crosses.
- Explain why some traits appear to skip generations in a family pedigree.
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