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Genetics and Hereditary

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What is genetics?

The study of pea plants
The study of heredity and the passing of traits from parents to offspring (correct)
The study of self-pollination
The study of eye color and hair color

What did Gregor Mendel discover about traits?

How traits are passed down through generations (correct)
How to control the reproduction of certain traits in pea plants
The process of self-pollination
The different colored flowers of pea plants

What type of plants consistently produce offspring with the same traits?

Self-pollinating plants
Pea plants
True-breeding plants (correct)
Plants with different colored flowers

What did Mendel's experiments involve?

Pea plants with white or purple flowers (D) Signup and view all the answers

What is self-pollination?

The process of a plant fertilizing itself (B) Signup and view all the answers

Which field of biology studies heredity or the passing of traits from parents to offspring?

Genetics (B) Signup and view all the answers

What is an inherited characteristic, such as eye color or hair color, called?

Traits (D) Signup and view all the answers

What did Gregor Mendel discover about the reproduction of certain traits of pea plants?

Pea plants can reproduce through both self-pollination and cross-pollination (D) Signup and view all the answers

What type of plants consistently produce offspring which has only one form of a trait?

True-breeding plants (A) Signup and view all the answers

What did Mendel know about the offspring of pea plants with different colored flowers?

The offspring will have the same color as the parent with dominant trait (B) Signup and view all the answers