The following topics will be discussed in this module

Mendel's strategy, experiments, and discoveries
Terminology for Mendelian genetics:

gene
genotype
phenotype
alleles
heterozygous
homozygous

segregation of alleles
testcrosses and backcrosses
independent assortment of alleles
dihybrid crosses

Genetics after Mendel

incomplete dominance vs. codominance
pleiotropy
multiple alleles
mutation
linkage
sex determination
sex linkage
relationship between recombination frequencies and the distance between two linked genes
chromosomal aberrations
epistasis
pedigree analysis
maternal inheritance and gene imprinting