Traits
What are traits?
Characteristics that an organism has.
What is inheritance?
Inheritance is the passing of genes from parent to offspring.
What did Mendel discover?
He discovered the study of Heredity.
Why did Mendel use pea plants as his study?
He observed similarities and differences of the pea plant traits to those of their parents.
What are genes?
Genes are the factors that control traits.
What plants were used to discover traits?
Pea plants
What is an example of inheritance?
Ex: My sister gets her eyes from our father.
What is heredity?
Heredity is the passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring.
What is fertilization?
Fertilization is when an egg and sperm join.
What are the different forms of genes called?
Alleles.
What is a dominant trait?
A trait that appears in the first generation.
Blue eyes are a recessive trait. Brown eyes are a dominant trait.
If Chloe has blue eyes which trait did she inherit?
The recessive trait.
How was Mendel involved with genetics.
He formed the foundation of genetics, the scientific study of heredity.
What is self-pollinating?
When pollen from a plant lands on that same flower.
How many alleles do pea plant inherit from its parents?
Two alleles from both plants. If there is one plant, two alleles from that one plant.
What is a recessive trait?
A trait that reappears in the second generation.
Maya´s mom has brown eyes, kinky hair, long legs, and pointy ears. Her dad has brown eyes, wavy hair, short legs, and slender ears. Maya is 5.7 who did she inherit her height from.
Maya´s mom... Maya´s mom has long legs.
Where did Mendel study?
In a monastery.
What is cross-pollinating?
Pollination of a plant with pollen from another plant.
Genes are the sequence of what?
DNA or RNA.
How many dominant traits are required to show in an organism?
How many recessive traits are required to show in an organism.?
One dominant trait.
Two recessive traits.
My grandma has hazel eyes. My mom has blue eyes. Knowing about dominant and recessive traits. Hazel eyes are what trait because they are in the first generation.
Dominant trait.
Where was he born?
Austria
Why did Mendel cross-pollinate?
To study and experiment with different traits on the same plant.
Nucleus are to cell as genes are to .....
Heredity