Human+Genetics

Expected Student Learning Competencies

 * Explain how **mutations** can alter genetic information and the possible consequences










 * Describe how the process of **meiosis** results in the formation of haploid gametes and analyze the importance of **meiosis** in sexual reproduction.
 * Illustrate that the sorting and recombining of genes in sexual reproduction results in a great variety of possible gene combination.
 * Evaluate the process of **sexual reproduction** in influencing genetic variability in a population.
 * Distinguish among observed inheritance patterns caused by several types of genetic traits (dominant, recessive, codominant, sex-linked,polygenic, incomplete dominance, multiple alleles)


 * Explain how gene actions, patterns of heredity, and reproduction of cells and organisms account for the continuity of life.