gregor mendel (1822-1844) & the foundations of genetics
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Gregor Mendel (1822-1844) & the Foundations of Genetics
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Early Views of Inheritance
• The Humunculus - in the egg or sperm?• Pangenesis - the mechanism of acquired inheritance – each tissue has its own genes, which migrate to the egg & sperm• Blended Inheritance - characters take on characteristics of both parents
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Why Mendel Liked Peas
• Several variable characters with two discrete traits– easy to score (yellow or green)
• Can control fertilization, including self-fertilization– can produce pure lines
• Offspring always have one of the parental traits
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Mendel’s Inferences
• Alternate traits caused by alternate forms of genes, the unit of heredity
• An organism has two genes, one from each parent, for each character– can produce pure lines
• Offspring always have one of the parental traits• Sperm & eggs always have just one allele (gene variant),
because they segregate• When two alleles are different, one is fully expressed and
one is masked (dominant or recessive)
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Mendel’s First Conclusion: Law of Segregation
• All allele pairs randomly segregate during gamete formation
• Paired condition restored with fusion (fertilization)
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1 : 1
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Mendel’s Second Conclusion: Law of Independent Assortment
• Each allele pair segregates independently of all others
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aB AB ab Ab
1 : 1 1 : 1:
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Chromosomes are the location of genes
• Chromosomes: long, threadlike associations of genes found in the nucleus consisting of protein & DNA
• Mendel’s Laws hold for chromosomes, within chromosomes there is some shuffling, called crossing-over
• Humans: 46 chromosomes - 22 pairs of autosomes plus 2 sex chromosomes (X and Y)
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Mendel’s Laws are a powerful source of variation
2 possible combinations of chromosomes to form gametes > 8,000,000 different gametes
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When two gametes combine (fertilization), there are approximately (8 million) combinations2
Actual # of possible combinations of zygotes (fertilized eggs) in humans = 70, 368, 744, 177, 664
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Somatic vs Germ Cells
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Somatic (body) vs Germ Somatic (body) vs Germ (reproductive) Cells(reproductive) Cells
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Somatic vs Germ Cells
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Somatic (body) vs Germ Somatic (body) vs Germ (reproductive) Cells in Humans(reproductive) Cells in Humans
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Crossing Over in MeiosisAnother Way to Generate Variation
Genes on the same chromosomeare linked - independence of segregationdepends on distance and frequency of crossing-over
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From DNA to Protein
DNA Base PairsA-C-G-T
Triplet Codonsfor (20) Amino Acids
AAA - CAT etc.
RNAIntermediaries
Protein(polymer of Amino Acids)
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What Proteins Do….• Provide structure
• Catalyze reactions
• Recognize molecules
• Transport molecules
• Regulate gene expression
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• Change in one base pair - may or may not change amino acid, changed amino acid may or may not change protein conformation
• Spontaneous, but also increased by radiation, heat, chemical mutagens
• Rate ‘Infrequent’: one in a billion bases
MutationPoint Mutations
AATAAGAA AATATGAA
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Detectable Genetic Mutations
• Many amino acid substitutions do not effect a protein’s function - they are silent
• Non-silent substitutions affect the proteins conformation (shape) or expression (promote or stop)
• Sometimes silent substitutions become revealed when the environment is changed
• Many important genetic diseases (e.g. PKU, Sickle-Cell)
• Frequency: about one in a million amino acids
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Three Genetic Mutations
Substitution
Insertion
Deletion AATAAGAA AATAGAA
AATAAGAA AATATGAA
AATAAGAA AATAAAGAA
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Chromosomal Mutations
• Chromosomes can be duplicated, portions can be translocated to a different chromosome or inverted on the same, or deleted
• Usually has profound consequences - sterility or worse
• Common, e.g. Down’s syndrome 1:700 births
• Major mode of ‘instantaneous’ speciation in self-fertilizing or inbreeding species, especially plants
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• Only 1/3 more genes than a worm- Genes like components in assembly lines?
• Many more harmful mutations per generation• Much less coding DNA (rest junk or spacer or ?? )
Human genomes are complex, but ….
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Genetic Load• For humans, estimated by reduced fertility and increase in
birth defects associated with conceptions between relatives• 4 recessive lethals per individual, more than one new lethal
per generation• In women’s eggs, chromosomal defects in eggs increase
with age• In men’s sperm, DNA sequence changes increase with age• In outbred human conceptions
– 70% of conceptions never come to term
– 2 per 1000 live births have genetic defects
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What Changes Gene Frequencies?
• Mutation
• Genetic drift (random change in small pops)
• Non-random Mating
• Migration = Gene Flow
• Natural Selection
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Purifying Selection
• Dominant or Sex-linked (X or Y) deleterious mutant alleles eliminated rapidly by natural selection
• Recessive autosomal deleterious mutant alleles reduced slowly by selection– heterozygotes ‘protect’ recessive deleterious mutant
alleles – never eliminated: a mutation - selection equilibrium is
reached
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Stabilizing Selection decreases variation, doesn’t shift mean
Trait value
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Trait value
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Old Mean
Parents Offspring
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Directional Selection may reduce variation, shifts mean
Trait value
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Mean
Trait value
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Old Mean
Parents Offspring
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Disruptive Selectionincreases variation, may shift mean
Trait value
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Parents Offspring
Trait value
Fre
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Old Mean
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Sexual Selection
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Forms of Sexual Selection
• Intrasexual (usually male-male competition)– Weapons for within-sex competition
• Intersexual (usually females choosing males)– Ornaments or signals to attract
choosy mates– Why are animals choosy: aesthetic
preferences (Darwin’s hyp.) or signals indicate mate quality?
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Consequences of Sexual Selection• Drives species away from the ecological
optimum
• Major cause of sexual dimorphism via disruptive selection: since ornaments are an advantage in only one sex, there is selection for modifiers that lead to expression in one sex only