Mendel's Peas Video

Who was Gregor Mendel?

• A 19th-century Austrian monk and biologist

• A modern geneticist

• A 20th-century historian

• A physicist

What did Mendel discover by breeding pea plants?

• How to grow larger peas

• Principles of heredity

• A new species of pea

• A method to change pea colors

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What does a homozygous pea mean?

• Alleles are different

• It is a type of disease

• It refers to the color of the pea

• Both alleles are identical

What is the purpose of a Punnett square in genetics?

• To predict genetic combinations

• To identify plant species

• To measure pea sizes

• To determine plant height

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What additional traits of peas did Mendel study beyond color?

• Resistance to diseases

• Shape of the peas

• Size of the pea plants

• Growth rate of the plants

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