Lab 3.4.1 Family Inheritance
Analyzing Pedigrees
When analyzing a pedigree, it is important to know what people within the generations carry to their offspring. Analyzing a pedigree is important for determining heredity and what is getting passed on through generation to generation. It shows you what dominant and recessive traits are carried throughout families and what you can expect a child in the family to have as a result. It is important in the bio medical field because then doctors are able to determine diseases throughout generations and give couples insight into if their child could be infected with a disease. Also it is important to understand what the best options would be in that situation.
Analyzing Pedigrees
When analyzing a pedigree, it is important to know what people within the generations carry to their offspring. Analyzing a pedigree is important for determining heredity and what is getting passed on through generation to generation. It shows you what dominant and recessive traits are carried throughout families and what you can expect a child in the family to have as a result. It is important in the bio medical field because then doctors are able to determine diseases throughout generations and give couples insight into if their child could be infected with a disease. Also it is important to understand what the best options would be in that situation.