Congratulations! You have just become a detective. Your goal is to figure out why certain family members have specific traits! How are you going to accomplish your goal?
Genetic Pedigree
What is a pedigree? Chart of the genetic history of family over several generations Scientist or genetic counselor finds information and makes the chart to analyze it
Constructing a Pedigree Female Male
Connecting People Married couple Offspring
Connecting People Fraternal Twins Identical twins
What does a pedigree chart look like?
How do they work Video We can’t always determine if something is heterozygous. As we go through our examples and worksheet you are worried about completely filling in the recessive traits.
Let’s look at an example! Muscle type is not a sex linked characteristic. Fast twitch muscles dominate over slow twitch muscles
Place the Genotype of each individual below its symbol