What is the difference between homozygous and heterozygous?
Homozygous have 2 of the same alleles and heterozygous have one of each.
200
What are two types of pollination? Explain.
Cross pollination- cross flowers from two different plants; self pollination- flower pollinates itself
300
What was Gregor Mendel named after all his experiments with pea plants and give two reasons why he picked pea plants to work with?
He is known as "The Father of Genetics" and he picked pea plants because they self pollinate, they have many visible characteristics, and they can produce a lot of offspring in a relatively short amount of time.
300
What is an allele?
A form of a gene
300
What are two types of flowers? Which type are pea flowers and why?
perfect and imperfect; perfect because they have both pistil and stamens
400
Explain Mendel's P generation, F1generation and F2 generation. Explain the steps he took.
He cross pollinated a purebred tall pea plant with a purebred short pea plant and all the F1 offspring were hybrid tall. The F1 plants were self pollinated and he got 75% tall and 25% short in the F2 generation
400
Punnett square problem....you cross a homozygous black guinea pig with a heterozygous black guinea pig. What is the probability of the offspring being heterozygous black?
50% heterozygous black
400
Name the male reproductive organ in flowers and all its parts.
Stamen- anther and filament
500
Name 5 other pea plant characteristics that Mendel studied other than pea plant height.
Seed color, seed shape, pea pod color, pea pod shape, seed coat color, flower position
500
Almond shaped eyes are dominant (A) and your parents have almond shaped eyes. You have round eyes. What is the probability of your sibling having round eyes like you? Almond eyes like your parents?
Round eyes- 25%; Almond eyes- 75%
500
Name the female reproductive organ in plants all the parts and functions.