This document discusses inheritance patterns and how traits are passed from parents to offspring. It begins by explaining Mendel's model of inheritance, including the roles of chromosomes, genes, alleles, genotypes and phenotypes. It then discusses how inheritance can be modeled using Punnett squares and pedigrees. Finally, it describes some patterns of inheritance that differ from Mendel's model, such as incomplete dominance, codominance, polygenic inheritance and multiple alleles.