The term references a resource containing solutions to problems focused on inheritance patterns that deviate from Gregor Mendel’s laws. These problems typically involve concepts such as incomplete dominance, codominance, sex-linked traits, multiple alleles, and polygenic inheritance. A typical example would be a worksheet addressing blood type inheritance, which exhibits both multiple alleles (A, B, O) and codominance (A and B alleles are both expressed).
Such a resource offers significant benefits in education by providing students with verification of their problem-solving approaches and allowing them to identify areas where their understanding requires reinforcement. Historically, the emphasis on Mendelian genetics in introductory biology courses has sometimes overshadowed these more complex inheritance patterns. This resource provides necessary support for instructors in teaching, and students in mastering these intricate concepts.
