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Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

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Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance

1800年代後半、メンデルはエンドウ植物の遺伝について 観察を行い，その後顕微鏡の改良によって，科学者は細胞内構造を初めて 詳細に視覚化することができました。有糸分裂と減数分裂のプロセスが観察され，染色体はメンデルの 遺伝性の粒子であると考えられた。染色体の遺伝理論は、染色体の物理的挙動がメンデルの分離の法則と 独立遺伝の法則をどのように説明するかを 記述しています。有性生殖する生物は、体細胞または非生殖細胞に各染色体の 2つのコピーを持っています。減数分裂の間に、メンデルが分離の法則で説明したように、同じ遺伝子を運ぶ相同染色体ペアが分割されて 配偶子に分離されるため、各配偶子は すべての染色体のコピーを1つ受け取ります。異なる、つまり非相同の染色体ペアは、互いに接続されておらず，メンデルの独立遺伝の法則で説明されるように，配偶子に分類されます。受精すると、配偶子は 遺伝物質を組み合わせて、各染色体のコピーを 2つ持つ生物を生産します。したがって、エンドウ植物での 遺伝のパターンに基づいてメンデルが予測したように、母親から継承された遺伝子と父親から継承された遺伝子の コピーがそれぞれ2つあります。

ミコ、I.(2008)トーマスハントモーガンとセックスリンケージ。自然教育 1(1):143。[<a href="https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/thomas-hunt-morgan-and-sex-linkage-452">ソース</a>]

ゲイヨン、ジャン。2016.「メンデルからエピジェネティクスへ:遺伝学の歴史」 Comptes Rendus Biologies 339(7-8):225–30。[<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crvi.2016.05.009">出典</a>]

遺伝に関する染色体理論

1866年、グレゴール・メンデル（Gregor Mendel）はエンドウマメの育種実験の結果を発表し、身体的特徴の遺伝に予測可能なパターンがあることを証明しました。この研究成果の重要性はすぐには認識されませんでした。実は、当時は遺伝子の存在は知られていなかったのです。メンデルは、遺伝の単位を「因子」と呼んでいました。
 
 メンデルが観察した、分離と独立の法則の基礎となるメカニズムは、まだ解明されていませんでしました。1800年代後半には、顕微鏡と染色法の進歩により、有糸分裂と減数分裂を初めて可視化することができました。 
 
 1900年代初頭、セオドア・ボベリ（Theodor Boveri）やウォルター・サットン（Walter Sutton）らは、メンデルの法則の背景に染色体があるのではないかと独自に提唱し、染色体説を唱えました。ボベリとサットンは、それぞれウニとバッタを研究し、減数分裂時の染色体とメンデルの因子との間に顕著な類似性があることを発見しました。
 
 メンデルの因子のように、染色体は一対になっており、メンデルの分離の法則のように、減数分裂の間にこれらの対は分離され、すべての配偶子（例えば、精子や卵子）がそれぞれの対から1本の染色体を受け取るようになります。染色体のペアは互いに独立して分離され、メンデルの独立の法則に対応しています。
 
 染色体説の最初の具体的な証拠は、批判者の一人であるトーマス・ハント・モーガン（Thomas Hunt Morgan）によってもたらされました。モーガンは、ミバエの目の色に影響を与える突然変異が、オスとメスで異なる形で遺伝することを発見し、この形質がX染色体によって決定されることを証明しました。
 
 メンデルの因子は、染色体上の特定の位置にある遺伝子と呼ばれるDNAの断片であることがわかっています。異なる染色体上の遺伝子が独立して配置されているのは、第一減数分裂中期において細胞の正中線上に染色体がランダムに配置された結果であり、どの遺伝子が同じ娘細胞に分離するかを決定しています。相同性のある染色体のペアはそれぞれ独立して移動します。分離の法則は、減数第一分裂後期での染色体の移動に対応しており、正常な状態では、各配偶子がランダムに分配された各染色体のコピーを1つだけ受け取ることを保証しています。

1866年、グレゴール・メンデルは彼のエンドウ豆の育種実験の結果を発表し、遺伝の予測可能なパターンの証拠を提供しました...

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how genes map to chromosomes

Genes map to chromosomes, and this idea explains how Mendel’s inheritance patterns work. Gregor Mendel published his pea plant breeding results in 1866. He showed that physical traits follow predictable patterns. At the time, scientists did not yet know that genes existed. Mendel used the word &quot;factors&quot; for the hereditary units he studied.

The details behind Mendel’s laws of segregation and independent assortment were still unknown for many years. In the late 1800s, better microscopes and staining methods let scientists see mitosis and meiosis for the first time. These advances gave researchers a way to study how hereditary material behaves in cells. The chromosomal theory of inheritance grew from this work in the early 1900s.

Theodor Boveri and Walter Sutton independently suggested that chromosomes could explain Mendel’s laws. Boveri studied sea urchins, and Sutton studied grasshoppers. They saw that chromosomes during meiosis looked much like Mendel’s factors. Chromosomes also come in pairs, just as Mendel’s factors do. During meiosis, paired chromosomes separate so each gamete, such as a sperm or egg, receives one chromosome from each pair. Chromosome pairs also separate independently from one another, matching Mendel’s law of independent assortment.

Strong evidence came from Thomas Hunt Morgan, who had been a critic of the theory. He studied a fruit fly eye color mutation and found that it was inherited differently in males and females. This showed that the trait was linked to the X chromosome. We now know that Mendel’s factors are DNA segments called genes, and each gene sits at a specific place on a chromosome. The random arrangement of chromosome pairs at metaphase I affects which genes end up in the same daughter cells, and anaphase I helps ensure that each gamete gets one copy of each chromosome under normal conditions.

How Genes Map to Chromosomes

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Genotype, Phenotype, and Inheritance

Genotype, phenotype, and inheritance help explain how traits and disease risk are passed from parents to offspring. In diploid organisms, including humans, most other animals, and many plants, somatic cells carry a duplicate set of chromosomes. These chromosome pairs are homologous, with similar length, centromere position, and gene locations. Diploid organisms inherit two versions of each gene, one from each parent. These versions are called alleles, and they sit at the same relative locus,...

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Punnett Squares for Predicting Traits

Punnett squares help predict which traits offspring may inherit from two parents. They show possible genotypes, which are pairs of alleles, and can also show the chance of a phenotype, or visible trait, when the inheritance pattern is known. These grids work best for traits controlled by a single gene locus and passed on independently during meiosis. Punnett squares were developed in the early 1900s by Reginald Punnett. His work came after Gregor Mendel’s pea plant experiments revealed the...

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Mendel’s Pea Plant Inheritance Ratios

Gregor Mendel used pea plants to study how traits are passed from parents to offspring. His breeding experiments in the 1850s and 1860s showed that inheritance follows clear patterns. He crossed true-breeding plants that differed in one trait and found that dominant traits can hide recessive traits. Mendel focused on seven pea plant traits, and each trait had two forms controlled by a single gene locus. He noticed that true-breeding plants always produced offspring with the same phenotype, or...

dihybrid crosses

Mendel's Law of Independent Assortment

Mendel’s law of independent assortment explains how two traits can be inherited separately. Gregor Mendel tested this idea with pea plants that differed in two characteristics, such as pea color and pea shape. He used true-breeding parents that were homozygous for both traits but showed different phenotypes. In one example, Mendel crossed round, yellow peas with wrinkled, green peas. The parental generation had RRYY and rryy genotypes. Their first-generation offspring were all dihybrids,...

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Mendel’s Pea Cross Ratios

Mendel’s pea plant crosses show how traits can disappear in one generation and return in the next. When he crossed plants, one parental trait sometimes seemed to vanish in the F1 generation and reappear in the F2 generation. Mendel used this pattern to explain why some traits are dominant and others are recessive. He proposed that traits are controlled by alleles, which are different versions of a gene. An organism inherits two copies of each gene, one from each parent. In his model, a...

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Mendel’s Dihybrid Cross and Trait Ratios

Mendel’s dihybrid cross shows how two traits are inherited at the same time. A dihybrid cross is a cross in which both parents are homozygous for two distinct traits, and the F1 generation is heterozygous for both traits. Mendel used pea plants with round yellow peas and wrinkled green peas as an example. One parent had genotype YYRR, and the other had genotype yyrr. In the F1 generation, every plant showed the dominant traits, so the plants were YyRr and had yellow, round peas. The F2...

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Inheritance Risk with Sum and Product Rules

Inheritance risk can be calculated with the sum rule and the product rule. The sum rule applies to mutually exclusive events, or events that cannot happen at the same time. The product rule applies to independent events, or events that do not affect one another. These rules describe theoretical probability, which is the chance of an event before it happens. Empirical probability is different because it is based on events that have already occurred. These probability rules are useful in...

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Using Test Crosses to Identify Genotypes

Test crosses are used to identify the genotype of an organism with a dominant trait. A genotype is the pair of alleles inherited for a gene, and alleles are different forms of the same gene. In diploid organisms, including humans, each gene usually has two alleles, one from each parent. An allele is recessive when its effect is hidden by another allele at the same gene location. Pea plants provide a clear example with flower color. White flowers are recessive, because one copy of the purple...

polygenic traits

Polygenic Traits in Human Height

Polygenic traits are traits controlled by more than one gene. Human height is a clear example of this kind of inheritance. Because many genes work together, the final trait can vary a lot from person to person. Researchers have found hundreds of loci, or gene locations, that influence height. There are likely many more that have not yet been identified. Many of these genes affect cartilage in the growth plates of the long bones in the arms and legs, either directly or indirectly. Height is...

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Reading Family Traits in Pedigrees

Pedigrees are family trees used to track how a trait passes through generations. They help scientists and students see whether a trait is dominant or recessive, whether it is autosomal or sex-linked, what genotypes family members may have, and what phenotypes may appear in future generations. For families with a history of inherited disease, this information can be important for family planning. In plants and animals, inheritance is often studied with crosses. Monohybrid crosses can show...

multiple allele traits

Blood Type and Allele Interactions

Multiple alleles can shape traits through blood type, sickle cell anemia, incomplete dominance, and codominance. Multiple allelism means a gene has three or more allelic forms. Diploid organisms, including humans, usually carry only two alleles for each gene, but many human genes exist in multiple forms in the population. Human blood type is a clear example of multiple allelism. The blood type gene has three alleles: I A , I B , and i. These alleles help determine which blood type a person has...

epistasis

Gene Masking in Rabbit Fur Color

Epistasis describes how one gene can mask or change the effect of another gene. In high school genetics, this helps explain why many traits do not follow a simple single-gene pattern. Instead, alleles at different locations can work together to shape the final phenotype. Mendel studied seven unrelated pea traits, but most traits involve multiple gene interactions. Epistasis often happens when one gene interferes with the expression of another gene. It can also occur when genes are part of the...

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Genes and Environment Shape Height

Genes and environment both shape human height and other traits. Genes are the inherited instructions we get from our parents. Environment includes factors such as diet, stress, and social conditions. Many phenotypes, or observable traits, reflect both influences. Some also show up later in life, including cancer and other diseases. Height is a clear example of this interaction. Scientists estimate that 70-90% of height variation comes from genetic differences among people. The remaining 10-30%...

pleiotropy

SOX10 and Multiple Traits in Pleiotropy

Pleiotropy is when one gene affects more than one trait. The SOX10 gene is a clear example because it can influence pigmentation, hearing, and intestinal movement. These traits may seem unrelated, but they can all be linked to the same gene change. In humans, a deleted region in SOX10 can cause Waardenburg Syndrome Type 4, or WS4. WS4 is an autosomal recessive disorder, which means a person usually inherits two altered copies of the gene. Common signs include a white forelock,...

sex-linked disorders

X- and Y-Linked Disorder Patterns

X- and Y-linked disorders come from mutations in genes on the sex chromosomes. These genes, like those on autosomes, are needed for normal body function. When a mutation causes a biological problem, the condition is called sex-linked. Y-linked disorders come from changes in the Y chromosome. They affect only males, because only males carry a Y chromosome. Mutations in this small chromosome can affect male sexual function and secondary sex characteristics. One example is Y-chromosome...

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X-Linked Inheritance in Families

X-linked inheritance explains how traits on the X chromosome are passed through families. In most mammalian species, females have two X sex chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y. A mutation on one X chromosome may be masked in females by a normal allele on the other X. In males, that same mutation is more likely to show because there is no second normal X to balance it. Traits caused by changes on the X chromosome are called X-linked traits. Color blindness is a well-studied example.

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Barr Bodies and X-Chromosome Balance

Barr bodies and X-chromosome balance help explain how female mammalian cells control gene activity from the X chromosome. The human X chromosome carries far more genes than the Y chromosome. Because males usually have one X chromosome and females have two, females would make twice as many of some proteins without a control system. To prevent that imbalance, female mammalian cells inactivate nearly all the genes on one X chromosome during early embryonic development. The inactive X condenses...

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Maternal DNA in Mitochondria and Chloroplasts

Maternal DNA in mitochondria and chloroplasts explains how some genes are inherited outside the nucleus. Most DNA is in the nucleus, but mitochondria and chloroplasts in the cell cytoplasm also carry their own DNA and can copy it independently of nuclear DNA. Mitochondria are found in both plant and animal cells. They are called the powerhouses of eukaryotic cells because they break down glucose to make energy for cellular activity. Mitochondrial DNA has about 37 genes, and many help with...

chromosomal theory of inheritance

Genes map to chromosomes, and this idea explains how Mendel’s inheritance patterns work. Gregor Mendel published his pea plant breeding results in 1866. He showed that physical traits follow predictable patterns. At the time, scientists did not yet know that genes existed. Mendel used the word "factors" for the hereditary units he studied. The details behind Mendel’s laws of segregation and independent assortment were still unknown for many years. In the late 1800s, better microscopes and...

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Trace how Mendel’s factors became genes on chromosomes, and see how meiosis, segregation, and independent assortment explain inheritance in fruit flies and other organisms.

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Structure of a Gene

A gene is the fundamental unit of heredity. Every individual has two copies of each gene, one inherited from each parent. Although most people contain the ...

DNA Packaging

Organization of Genes

Chromosome Structure

A functional eukaryotic chromosome must contain three elements: a centromere, telomeres, and numerous origins of replication.
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The Nucleosome

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Chromatin Packaging

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Karyotyping

Position-effect Variegation

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Histone Modification

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Spreading of Chromatin Modifications

The histone&#160;proteins in the nucleosomes are post-translationally modified (PTM) to increase or decrease access to DNA. The commonly observed PTMs are ...

Lampbrush Chromosomes

In 1882, Flemming observed lampbrush chromosomes (LBC) in salamander eggs. Later in 1892, R&#252;ckert observed LBCs in shark egg cells and coined the ...

Polytene Chromosomes

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Histone Variants at the Centromere

Histone variants are the histone proteins with structural and sequence variations. These variants may be regarded as &#8220;mutant&#8221; forms that ...

Inheritance of Chromatin Structures

Epigenetics is the study of inherited changes in a cell&#39;s phenotype without changing the DNA sequences. It provides a form of memory for the ...

Euchromatin

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Heterochromatin

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Chromatin Position Affects Gene Expression

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Genetics of Organisms

Mendelian Genetics
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REF and WEF Fly Genetics
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Genetic Lingo

Overview

An organism is diploid if it inherits two variants, or alleles, of each gene, one from each parent. These two alleles constitute the genotype ...

Punnett Squares

Overview

A Punnett square displays the possible genotypes offspring can inherit from two parental genotypes. If a trait&#x2019;s inheritance pattern ...

Monohybrid Crosses

Overview

In the 1850s and 1860s, Gregor Mendel investigated inheritance by performing monohybrid crosses in pea plants. He crossed two plants that were ...

Dihybrid Crosses

Overview

To determine whether traits are inherited together or separately, Gregor Mendel crossed pea plants that differed in two traits. These parental ...

Trihybrid Crosses

Trihybrid Crosses
Some of Mendel&#8217;s crosses examined three pairs of contrasting characteristics. Such a cross is called a trihybrid cross. A ...

Law of Segregation

When crossing pea plants, Mendel noticed that one of the parental traits would sometimes disappear in the first generation of offspring, called the F1 ...

Law of Independent Assortment

While Mendel&#x2019;s Law of Segregation states that the two alleles for one gene are separated into different gametes, a different question of how ...

Test Cross

Alleles are different forms of the same gene. Humans and other diploid organisms inherit two alleles of every gene, one from each parent.

An allele is ...

Chi-square Analysis

The chi-square test is a statistical hypothesis test. It is used to check whether there is a significant difference between an expected value and an ...

Pedigree Analysis

Overview

A pedigree is a diagram displaying a family&#x2019;s history of a trait. Analyzing pedigrees can reveal (1) whether a trait is dominant or ...

Nature and Nurture

Many human characteristics, like height, are shaped by both nature&mdash;in other words, by our genes&mdash;and by nurture, or our environment. For ...

Probability Laws

Overview

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Background and Environment Affect Phenotype

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Multiple Allele Traits

The Concept of Multiple Allelism

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X and Y Chromosomes

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The Y Chromosome Determines Maleness

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Non-nuclear Inheritance

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The Ratio of X Chromosome to Autosomes

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Incomplete Dominance

Gregor Mendel&#39;s work (1822 - 1884) was primarily focused on pea plants. Through his initial experiments, he determined that every gene in a diploid ...

X-linked Traits

In most mammalian species, females have two X sex chromosomes and males have an X and Y. As a result, mutations on the X chromosome in females may be ...

Lethal Alleles

Agouti: A Lethal Allele
Lucien Cu&#233;not discovered lethal alleles in 1905 while studying the inheritance of coat color in mice. The agouti gene is ...

Sex-linked Disorders

Like autosomes, sex chromosomes contain a variety of genes necessary for normal body function. When a mutation in one of these genes results in biological ...

Epistasis

In addition to multiple alleles at the same locus influencing traits, numerous genes or alleles at different locations may interact and influence ...

X-Inactivation

The human X chromosome contains over ten times the number of genes as in the Y chromosome. Since males have only one X chromosome, and females have two, ...

Polygenic Traits

When more than one gene is responsible for a given phenotype, the trait is considered polygenic. Human height is a polygenic trait. Studies have uncovered ...

Dosage Compensation

In animals, gender is determined by the number and type of sex chromosome. For example, human females have two X chromosomes, and males have one X and one ...

Pleiotropy

Pleiotropy is the phenomenon in which a single gene impacts multiple, seemingly unrelated phenotypic traits. For example, defects in the SOX10 gene cause ...

Ask questions to clarify relationships about the role of DNA and chromosomes in coding the instructions for characteristic traits passed from parents to offspring. [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include the phases of meiosis or the biochemical mechanism of specific steps in the process.]

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Meiosis I

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Meiosis II

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Meiosis vs. Mitosis

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Crossing over

Nondisjunction

Make and defend a claim based on evidence that inheritable genetic variations may result from (1) new genetic combinations through meiosis, (2) viable errors occurring during replication, and or (3) mutations caused by environmental factors. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on using data to support arguments for the way variation occurs.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include the phases of meiosis or the biochemical mechanism of specific steps in the process.]

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