In this chapter you will learn about Mendel's work on heredity and his principles of dominance, segregation, and independent assortment. You will use Mendel's principles and the rules of probability to solve genetic problems. You will also examine the role that meiosis has in biological inheritance.

In this chapter, you will: discuss Mendel's experiments describe dominance, segregation, and independent assortment relate probability to genetics solve genetics problems using a Punnett square describe the process of meiosis compare meiosis and mitosis