18 February 2013

Intro. to Genetics and Evolution Week 2 Notes

Oops. I've been taking Dr. Mohammed Noor's "Introduction to Genetics and Evolution" course on Coursera. I was supposed to have been posting these as I went along in the course, but here we are 6 weeks in, and I'm only just now getting around to it. No notes from the first week, as it was all introductory material with which I'm already familiar.

These week 2 notes are rather sparse as well, but there was at least one new thing to learn.



I can't believe a.) that I'd never been taught that you could simply multiply monohybrid probabilities for each gene in a dihybrid (or presumably any number of traits) cross, and b.) it never even occurred to me that this could be done, as it seems really obvious in hindsight. Ah well, now I know it and can pass it on to my high school students next year. :)

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