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Cambridge AS & A Level Biology

16Inheritance

Inheritance in Cambridge AS & A Level Biology: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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  • How meiosis and fertilisation produce genetic variation

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  • Meiosis: the reduction division

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  • Autosomal linkage and epistasis

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  • Dihybrid inheritance

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  • Genes, proteins and phenotype

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  • Monohybrid inheritance and genetic diagrams

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  • Sex determination and sex linkage

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  • The chi-squared test in genetics

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  • Control of gene expression

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Between which chromatids does crossing over take place?

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