Mendel's Pea Plants and Genetics

The offspring from a cross are called the first filial (meaning son) or

• P generation

• F1 generation

• F2 generation

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True or False: Mendel studied traits in pea plants such as height, seed shape and seed color.

• True

• False

True or False: Only pea plants that inherit 2 recessive alleles for short stems will be short.

• True

• False

If a pea plant inherits one allele for tall stems and one allele for short stems it will be ___.

• short

• medium

• tall

The passing of traits from offspring to parents

• genes

• heredity

• alleles

• purebred

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A organism that always produces offspring with the same form of the trait as the parent

• dominant

• recessive

• purebred

• hybrid

The parent generation is abbreviated as

• F1

• F2

• P

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Factors that control traits

• atoms

• cells

• genes

• brains

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There are different forms of genes called

• traits

• alleles

• dominant

• recessive

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True or False: Genes control the inheritance of traits.

• True

• False

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