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I. Connection between molecular genetics and classical genetics--a study of phenylketonuria (PKU)

A. Symptoms

B. How is this inherited?

C. What's happening in people with PKU (at the molecular level)?

D. Treatment for PKU

II. History of the study of inheritance

A. Knowledge of ancient peoples

B. Theory of pangenesis (proposed by Hippocrates, supported by Aristotle)

C. Preformation theories of inheritance (17th-18th centuries)

D. Blending theory of inheritance (18th-19th centuries)

E. Mendel's theory of inheritance (1865)

III. Mendel's principles of inheritance

A. Principle of segregation

B. Principle of independent assortment

C. Multiple hybrid crosses

I. Multiplication Rule (and rule)

II. Addition Rule (either or rule)

III. Binomial theorem (combination of multiplication and addition rules)