Mendel and Heredity

What is the passing of traits from parents to offspring?

• Heredity

• Genetics

• Traits

• Mendelian

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What is the study of heredity?

• Genetics

• Mendel

• Pea plants

• Genes

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Who was Gregor Mendel? (Select ALL that apply)

• father of genetics

• Austrian monk

• Egyptian scientist

• Austrian scientist

3 reasons pea plants are ideal for genetic studies

• reproduce quickly

• easily observed traits

• easily controlled to pollinate

• easily separated

When Mendel did a manual cross between plants with white flowers and plants with purple flowers he was:

• self-pollinating

• cross-pollinating

• making offspring for consumption

When Mendel pollinated the pea plants, what flower color options were there?

• red and green

• purple and white

• purple and blue

• white and pink

Another name for the offspring from two plants cross pollinating.

• hybrid

• homozygous dominate

• homozygous recessive

• true

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How can you find the ratio of offspring?

• divide the number of recessive genes by the number of dominant genes

• divide the number of dominant genes by the number of recessive genes

• multiply the dominant and recessive genese

• add the dominant and recessive genes together

What is the role of DNA in heredity?

• It stores all genetic information

• It provides energy to cells

• It builds cell membranes

A physical feature that has different forms in a population of organisms

• Characteristic

• Probability

• Genotype

• Allele

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