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Genetics & Inheritance

How traits pass from parents to children: Mendel's peas, dominant and recessive alleles, Punnett squares and ratios, independent assortment, chromosomes and DNA, sex-linked traits, polygenic traits and heritability.

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Prereqs: Cells. Next: Biotech & CRISPR. Sources: Mendel, 'Experiments on Plant Hybridization' (1866); Siddhartha Mukherjee, *The Gene* (2016); NIH National Human Genome Research Institute.
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