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Chapter 13: Modern Understandings of Inheritance

The gene is the physical unit of inheritance, and genes are arranged in a linear order on chromosomes.

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individual with an error in chromosome number; includes chromosome segment deletions and duplications

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any of the non-sex chromosomes

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(also, map unit) relative distance that corresponds to a 0,01 recombination frequency

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theory proposing that chromosomes are the genes' vehicles and that their behavior during meiosis is the physical basis of the inheritance patterns that Mendel observed

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