What did Gregor Mendel study?

a distinguishing quality or characteristic of an organism

Long ago, people thought that an organism’s ________________ were determined in the same way that paint colors can be mixed.

The belief of traits mixing in offspring is called:

The branch of science that studies inheritance is:

The passing of traits from parents to their offspring is called:

Why did Mendel choose peas to work with with? (Check all that apply)

Pollination occurs when pollen lands on the pistil of a flower.

__________________ occurs when pollen from one plant lands on the pistil of the SAME plant.

Cross pollination occurs when pollen from a plant lands on the pistil of a __________ plant.

Pure Bred parents will always produce offspring with the same traits.

In his experiments, the pure bred parents were called the ___________ generation.

The word __________ refers to offspring that have the combining qualities of their parent.

Mendel called the first set of offspring ___________.

When Mendel cross pollinated a pure purple flower parent with a pure white flower parent, the offspring were:

When Mendel self pollinated the first generation of offspring he found their offspring to be:

Mendel concluded that the trait that showed up the most in the offspring was:

The trait that was blocked by the other trait was called: