2. http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/mendel/mendel.html

4. Example: Genotype - Phenotype WW - person has a widow’s peak Ww - person has a widow’s peak ww - person has a straight hair line

5. http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/independentassortment.html

7. Each human body cell has 23 pairs of homologous chromosomes (46 total) Half of the chromosomes are from the mother and half are from the father Karyotype

8. Trisomy 21

9. Trisomy 18 & Monosomy 15

10. http://www.sumanasinc.com/webcontent/animations/content/mistakesmeiosis/mistakesmeiosis.html

11. The Human Genome Defined as the sum total of genes in a human Estimates are 30,000 genes in each human controlling production of approximately 2 million different proteins Each gene consists of an average of several thousand bases Total number of nucleotides is about 3 billion per human cell

12. Human Genome Project The project began in the late 1980s supported by 15 billion dollars Goal of the project was to sequence the roughly 8 billion chemical letters in DNA that comprise the genetic code of humans Many scientists said it could not be done Project was completed in 2000.