Gregor Mendel- Ch 11- sect 1

What did Gregor Mendel use to discover the principles that rule heredity?

• Pea Plants

• Pigeons

• Pear trees

• Photosynthesis

What do we 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

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What do we call the result of the genotype (for example, the color of the peas)?

• Visible traits
• Physiotrait
• Genotype 2
• Phenotype

What do we call the table used to calculate the probability of an offspring's genotype?

• Punnett square
• Venn diagram
• Golden ratio
• Fibonacci sequence

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This type of phenotype is less likely to be prominent in offspring

• Dominant genotype
• Recessive genotype
• Dominant phenotype
• Recessive phenotype

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Gregor Mendel is known as the father of _________

• Modern Medicine
• Father of the Green Revolution
• Father of Genitics
• The Pea Plant Man

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Gregor Mendel was born in what country

• Austraila
• Austria
• Africa
• Alaska

Before Mendel how did people think you got your traits

• equal from each parent
• more from the dad
• more from the mom
• from a stork

When Mendel crossed a purebred dominant plant (RR) with a purebred recessive plant (rr), what did he notice?

• The recessive trait only showed up about 50% of the time.

• All the offspring always showed the dominant trait.

• Dominant and recessive traits blended together.

• The recessive trait showed up 100% of the time.

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What we now call genes, Mendel referred to as...

• letters

• subunits

• peas

• factors