Gregor Mendel
Vocabulary
Pea Plants
Punnet Squares
Vocabulary 2
100
Gregor Mendel was a ____ monk
What is Austrian?
100
Mendel’s main conclusions: *organisms inherit 2 copies of each gene *organisms only donate one copy from each gene
What is law of segregation?
100
Pea Plants were used instead of people and animals because ____
What is people and animals took too long to collect and study results
100
TT is ____ and _____
What is homozygous and dominant?
100
the trait with the most probability to be inherited (uppercase letter in Tt)
What is dominant?
200
Gregor Mendel's job at the monastery.
What is working in the gardens.
200
physical characteristic/trait
What is phenotype?
200
pea plants produce hundreds of offspring
What is a reason why pea plants are model systems?
200
tt is ______ and _______
What is homozygous and recessive?
200
genetically uniform line of offspring
What is purebred?
300
The method that Gregor Mendel used to deliver pollen from one plant to another.
What is cross pollination?
300
the likelihood that a particular event will occur
What is probability?
300
this plant is asexual (reproduces by itself)
What is the pea plant?
300
the likelihood that a particular event will occur
What is probability?
300
a piece of DNA that carries instructions on making proteins
What is gene?
400
The plant that Gregor Mendel is famous for working with
What is pea plants?
400
the mating of two organisms
What is cross?
400
pea plants are convenient, small, and easy
What is a reason why pea plants are model systems?
400
A rabbit with hh homozygous genes is crossed with a rabbit with Hh heterozygous genes. What will the results be?
What is 50% hh & 50% Hh
400
crosses that examine the inheritance of only one specific trait
What is Monohybrid cross?
500
What Gregor Mendel is commonly known as.
What is "Father of Genetics"?
500
any alternative form of a gene that occurs at a specific locus
What is allele?
500
Pea plants have a pure genetic pool.
What is a result of the pea plant's asexuality?
500
A skunk with the dominant trait of having a white stripe go down its back is crossed with a skunk without a stripe. The offspring has no stripe. What are the genotypes of the parents?
What is Ss and ss
500
different traits appear to be inherited seperately
What is law of independent assortment?
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