Principles of Inheritance and Variation

This topic covers concepts, such as Gene, Gene Locus, Alleles, Genotype, Phenotype, Genetic Trait, Homozygous Trait, Heterozygous Trait, Dominant Trait, Recessive Trait, Test Cross, Back Cross, and Trihybrid Cross.

This topic covers concepts, such as Pre-Mendelian Concepts of Heredity, Mendel's Experiment, and Mendel's Laws of Inheritance.

This topic covers concepts, such as Deviation from Mendelism, Incomplete Dominance, Codominance, Multiple Allelism, Blood Inheritance, Polygenic Inheritance, Pleiotropy, Complementary Genes, Supplementary Genes, Lethal Genes, etc.

This topic covers the concept of Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance.

This topic covers concepts, such as Linkage, Linkage Groups, Linkage Maps, Mechanism of Linkage, and Crossing Over.

This topic covers concepts, such as Sex Determination in Animals, Allosomes, Autosomes, Homogametes, Heterogametes, XX-XY Type of Sex Determination, XX- X0 Type of Sex Determination, ZZ-Z0 Type of Sex Determination, etc.

This topic covers concepts, such as Mutation, Induced Mutation, Mutation on the Basis of Occurrence, Variations in Chromosome Number, Spontaneous Mutation, Silent Mutation, Transition, Euploidy, Transversion, Missense Mutation, etc.

This topic covers concepts, such as Sex-limited Traits, Sex-influenced Traits, Sex differentiating Traits, Metafemales, and Holandric Inheritance.

This topic covers concepts, such as Pedigree Analysis, Mendelian Disorders, Genetic Disorders, Sex Linked Inheritance, Colour Blindness, Haemophilia, Sickle-cell Anaemia, Phenylketonuria, Thalassemia, Cystic Fibrosis, etc.

This topic covers the concept of Applications of Pedigree Analysis.

This topic covers concepts, such as Chromosomal Disorders, Down’s Syndrome, Klinefelter’s Syndrome, Turner’s Syndrome, Patau Syndrome, and Chromosomal Aberrations in Human.