Gregor Mendel

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

• Pea Plant
• Pigeons
• Pear trees
• Photosynthesis

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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

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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

How many alleles do we inherit for each gene?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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What is heredity?

• The passing of traits from parent to offspring.

• A family tree that shows the relationships between an organism and its ancestors.

• A diagram that is used to predict the genotypes of offspring produced by two parents.

• A notable feature or characteristic of an organism.

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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.

What did Mendel use to do his research?

• green beans

• peanuts

• peas

• peppers

2. What is meant by the term dominant?

• powerful traits

• traits that do not show, although they exist in the genes of the offspring

• traits that physically show in the offspring

• Traits of heredity

Who is Gregor Mendel

• an Austrian Monk from the mid 1800s who contributed to the study of Genetics

• The scientist who discovered the structure of DNA

• a British scientist who discovered penicillin

• The scientist who used X-Ray Crystallography to shed light on the structure of DNA

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