Essay Archive - Genetic Observations Through The Studies of Hybrid Corn, Single Gene Human Traits, and Fruit Flies
Genetic Observations Through The Studies of Hybrid Corn, Single Gene Human Traits,
and Fruit Flies
The basic foundation of modern genetics was led by Gregor Mendel (Corcos,
1993). Mendel was not the first to experiment with heredity, and our Lyman
Briggs biology class will not be the last to deal with genetics. Genetics is
the science of heredity. In our lab, we had three main objectives. First, we
evaluated our data on monohybrid and dihybrid corn cross seed counts against
Mendel’s theoretical expectatio....
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