Gregor Mendel and his peas

As it turns out ___________ or the passing of traits from parents to offspring is more complicated than you might think.

• self pollination

• heredity

• monastery

• Mendel

Gregor Mendel was a _____

• teacher

• doctor

• monk

• Austrian singer

He did experiments with _____________ to begin to open doors in understanding genetics.

• pea plants

• fertilizer

• monks

• insects

A _________________ has both male and female reproductive structures

• first generation

• true breeding plant

• cross pollinating plant

• self pollinating plant

In Mendel's experiment to force his parent generation plants to cross pollinate, what did he do?

• made sure bees were around

• removed their anthers and pollinated from other plant himself

• used artificial wind

• used true breeding plants

What did he call traits that showed up in the first generation?

• Dominant

• Recessive

• Original

• Alleles

When did the recessive trait show up in his experiments?

• every time

• first generation

• second generation

• never

He realized that his results could be explained if each plant had what?

• a good taste

• true breeding plants

• been pollinated by bees

• two set of instructions from each parent plant

When was Mendel's work recognized?

• after he died

• in the monastery

• two years after his experiments

• in 2000

What does a ratio do?

• multiply totals

• a way to compare numbers

• look at characteristics of experiments

• gives us subtotals in math and science