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What was his culture and how would you describe him?
Austrian Munk
What did he cross-pollinate?
Hint: Both are purebred.
Homozygous dominant tall plants (purebred) with homozygous recessive short plants (purebred)
What are genes?
The material that controls which trait shows up in the organism.
What is Heredity?
The passing of traits from parent to offspring.
What are traits?
Ways of looking, thinking, or being.
What did he experiment with?
Pea Plants
What did Mendel recognize about offspring?
He recognized offspring inherit traits from parents (one version of each trait from each parent)
What was he trying to find the process of?
Heredity
For the offspring of the purebred tall purebred and short plants, every singe plant had the genotype Tt (_______) but all of those plants were (___) because the tall gene is (_________) over the short gene
(heterozygous) (tall) (dominant)
What was he often referred to as? (Nickname)
Why would this be his nickname?
"Father of Genetics"