Gregor Mendel
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Punnett Squares
Vocabulary
Alleles
100
The father of modern genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
100
Genotype codes for ______.
What is phenotype?
100
In pea plants T=tall and t=short. If I breed a homozygous tall plant with a homozygous short plant, what is the probability that their offspring will be short?
What is 0%.
100
traits that are passed from parents to offspring.
What is heredity?
100
An allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present.
What is a dominant allele?
200

Mendel's original occupation before he started studying genetics.

What is a Monk

200
An organism’s _____ is its genetic makeup, or allele combinations.
What is genotype?
200

Why is a pea plant that is hybrid for stem height tall?

The dominant allele for tall stems mask the recessive allele for short stems

200
An organisms physical appearance or traits.
What is phenotype?
200
An allele that is covered up when the dominant allele is with it.
What is a recessive allele?
300
In pea plants, T=tall and t=short. If I breed two heterozygous pea plants, what is the probability that their offspring will be short?
What is 25%
300
Today’s scientists call the factors that control traits____.
What is genes?
300

What will be the result if I cross two heterozygous pairs of alleles? Provide the ratios

1:2:1

300
An organism's set of alleles that determines the expression of a particular characteristic or trait.
What is genotype?
300
Has two identical alleles.
What is homozygous?
400
The results Mendel got when he bred his F1 generation plants
What is mostly tall, some short?
400

What country did Gregor Mendel hail from?

Austria

400

Do the Punnett Square, Bb and bb B = Black Dominant bb = White Recessive One parent is heterozygous while the other is homozygous recessive The ratio of white to black offspring is______

What is 2:2

400
The different forms of a gene.
What are alleles?
400
Has two different alleles.
What is heterozygous?
500

What was the name of the man who took most credit for Mendel's work after his death?

Reginald Punnett

500

How many different characteristics did Mendel study? Name all of them

7 (seed shape, seed color, pod shape, pod color, flower color, flower position, stem height)

500

What will be the phenographic result of the the offspring when the alleles are homozygous recessive for both parents? T-represent blue eyes t-represents brown eyes.

brown eyes

500
Organisms that always produce offspring with the same trait as the parent.
What is a purebred?
500
Has two different alleles.
What is a hybrid?
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