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?

    <p>Pea plants with white or purple flowers</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is self-pollination?

    <p>The process of a plant fertilizing itself</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Genetics</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Traits</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>Pea plants can reproduce through both self-pollination and cross-pollination</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>True-breeding plants</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

    <p>The offspring will have the same color as the parent with dominant trait</p> Signup and view all the answers

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