Gregor Mendel

What plant did Mendel use to study genetics?

• peas

• corn

• flowers

• apricots

What did Gregor Mendel Discover?

• new species of peas

• pea plants

• Dominant and recessive genes

• Pangaea

What was Gregor Mendel's occupation?

• Monk

• Politician

• Veternarian

• Deep sea-diver

After Gregor crossed All purple flowers with All white flowers, what colors did the flowers turn out?

• Purple

• white

• light purple

• mixture of both white and purple

If purple flowers show up more than white, that could mean that the purple color is....

• recessive

• dominant

Why did Gregor Mendel study pea plants?

• because there were no green beans

• easily observed traits

• they were laying around

• because there were no experimenting on animals at the time

After Gregor made his discovery, every scientist and citizen believed his theory and he was a hero in the SCIENCE WORLD!!!

• False

• True

Gametes are also known as

• genes
• sex cells
• alleles
• hybrids

In Mendel's pea experiments, the male gametes are the

• eggs

• seeds

• pollen

• sperm

What did Mendel call the two kinds of traits exhibited by the pea plants (one coming from the father, one from the mother)?

• Genesis
• Elective traits
• Alleles
• Quadrants