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| Chapters are from Pierce, Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, Third Edition | |
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| Introduction to Genetics | |
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| Genetics Is Important to Individuals, to Society, and to the Study of Biology | |
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| Humans Have Been Using Genetics for Thousands of Years | |
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| A Few Fundamental Concepts Are Important for the Start of Our Journey into Genetics | |
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| New Chapter Opening Story: Albinism in the Hopis | |
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| Expanded section on model genetic organisms, using the golden mutation in zebrafish as an example | |
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| Chromosomes and Cellular Reproduction | |
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| Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells Differ in a Number of Genetic Characteristics | |
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| Cell Reproduction Requires the Copying of the Genetic Material, Separation of the Copies, and Cell Division | |
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| Sexual Reproduction Produces Genetic Variation Through the Process of Meiosis | |
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| Revised discussion of the cell cycle | |
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| Updated coverage of the separation of sister chromatids and homologous chromosomes, including a discussion of shogoshin | |
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| Basic Principles of Heredity | |
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| Gregor Mendel Discovered the Basic Principles of Heredity | |
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| Monohybrid Crosses Reveal the Principle of Segregation and the Concept of Dominance | |
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| Dihybrid Crosses Reveal the Principle of Independent Assortment | |
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| Observed Ratios of Progeny May Deviate from Expected Ratios by Chance | |
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| New Chapter Opening Story: The Genetics of Red Hair | |
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| Five new Data Analysis Problems featuring real data from scientific papers | |
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| Sex Determination and Sex-Linked Characteristics | |
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| Sex Is Determined by a Number of Different Mechanisms | |
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| Sex-Linked Characteristics Are Determined by Genes on the Sex Chromosomes | |
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| Model Genetic Organism: The Fruit Fly Drosophila melanogaster | |
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| Revised discussion of nondisjunction and the Chromosome Theory of Inheritance | |
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| New in-text Worked Problem | |
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| Updated discussion of X-inactivation | |
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| Two new Data Analysis problems featuring real data from scientific papers | |
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| Extensions and Modifications of Basic Principles | |
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| Dominance Is Interaction Between Genes at the Same Locus | |
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| Penetrance and Expressivity Describe How Genes Are Expressed As Phenotype | |
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| Lethal Alleles May Alter Phenotypic Ratios | |
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| Multiple Alleles at a Locus Create a Greater Variety of Genotypes and Phenotypes Than Do Two Alleles | |
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| Gene Interaction Occurs When Genes at Multiple Loci Determine a Single Phenotype | |
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| Sex Influences the Inheritance and Expression of Genes in a Variety of Ways | |
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| Anticipation Is the Stronger or Earlier Expression of Traits in Succeeding Generations | |
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| The Expression of a Genotype May Be Influenced by Environmental Effects | |
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| New Chapter Opening Story: Cu�©not's Odd Yellow Mice | |