GENETICS

Dog Days

of Science

Two canine-loving researchers unravel

the genetic secrets of man’s best friend.

◆ (^) Distinguish between the genotype and phenotype of a given genetic trait.
◆ (^) Describe the importance of Gregor Mendel’s experiments to our understanding of
inheritance.
◆ (^) Illustrate Mendel’s laws of segregation and independent assortment.
◆ (^) Create a Punnett square to predict the phenotype of offspring from parents with a
known genotype—both for single genes and for two independent genes.
◆ (^) Give examples of Mendelian traits and of traits with complex inheritance.
◆ (^) Explain how an individual’s phenotype may be determined by multiple genes that
interact with one another and with the environment.
After reading this chapter you should be able to: