Last week I was teaching Mendelian genetics to my freshmen biology class. It was quite serendipitous that the pea plants were diploid-- and also that the seven traits Mendel studied were inherited through simple autosomal dominance and recessiveness. Any kind of linkage, pleiotropy, incomplete dominance, epistasis, etc. would have made the principles of inheritance that much more befuddling.
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Date: 2011-01-25 09:06 pm (UTC)