Heredity and Gregor Mendel

What did Gregor Mendel spend many hours doing in the monastery garden?

• Observing plants

• Praying

• Reading books

• Writing letters

What did Mendel notice about the growth of plants in the garden?

• They grew in unpredictable ways

• They grew in highly predictable ways

• They grew taller than expected

• They grew shorter than expected

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What is heredity?

• The passing of traits from parent to offspring

• The growth of plants in a garden

• The observation of plants in a monastery

• The mixing of purebred and impurebred plants

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What did Mendel discover when he mixed purebred tall and purebred short peas?

• They produced medium height peas

• They produced only tall peas

• They produced only short peas

• They produced a mix of tall and short peas

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What are different forms of genes called?

• Traits

• Alleles

• Genotypes

• Phenotypes

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What is the genotype of an organism?

• The observable traits

• The hidden traits

• The dominant allele

• The possibilities for each trait

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What is a recessive allele?

• An allele that is visible

• An allele that is dominant

• An allele that is hidden

• An allele that is expressed

What can a Punnett Square be used for?

• Calculating the chance of having a certain trait

• Mixing purebred and impurebred plants

• Observing the growth of plants

• Passing on recessive alleles

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What did Mendel's discovery change about how we thought about heredity?

• It explained the inheritance of red hair

• It explained the growth of plants

• It explained the mixing of purebred and impurebred plants

• It explained the passing on of hidden traits

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What is Gregor Mendel often referred to as?

• The Father of Genetics

• The Father of Heredity

• The Father of Plants

• The Father of Science