Exploring Mendel's Legacy: Dominant and Recessive Genes

Where was Gregor Mendel born?

• Germany

• Austria

• Hungary

• Czech Republic

What led Mendel to become an Augustinian monk?

• A calling from God

• His family's financial situation

• His interest in science

• A farming accident

What was the common belief about heredity during Mendel's time?

• Traits were inherited as a blend of parental traits

• Traits were inherited independently

• Traits were determined by a single gene

• Traits were not inherited at all

What did Mendel discover about the inheritance of flower color in pea plants?

• Flower color is determined by multiple genes

• Flower color is inherited as a blend

• Flower color is not inherited

• Flower color is determined by a single gene

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What did Mendel call the versions of a gene passed from parent to offspring?

• Traits

• Factors

• Chromosomes

• Alleles

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Which allele is dominant in Mendel's pea plant experiments?

• Green

• Purple

• White

• Yellow

What does Mendel's first law, the law of segregation, state?

• Alleles are always dominant

• Traits are inherited as a blend

• Every individual possesses two alleles for any trait

• Genes are inherited independently

What does Mendel's second law, the law of independent assortment, state?

• Genes are inherited as a blend

• Genes are inherited together

• Genes are always dominant

• Genes are inherited independently from each other

Why was Mendel's work not recognized during his lifetime?

• He was not a scientist

• His work was too advanced for his contemporaries

• He did not publish his findings

• His data was incorrect

What controversy arose regarding Mendel's data?

• It was lost

• It was incomplete

• It was never published

• It was found to be statistically perfect