Heredity: Mendel's Garden

Heredity: Mendel's Garden

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Science, Biology

10th - 12th Grade

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The video tutorial discusses Gregor Mendel's experiments with pea plants, focusing on traits such as flower position, pod color, and plant height. Mendel used true breeders to ensure consistent offspring traits. He crossbred tall and short pea plants, observing that the first generation was all tall. Through self-pollination, the second generation revealed a 3:1 ratio of tall to short plants, demonstrating the reappearance of the short trait.

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3 mins • 1 pt

What process did Mendel use to allow the tall offspring to pollinate among themselves?

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What interesting observation did Mendel make in the second generation of plants?

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