Gregor Mendel: Genetics Pioneer

He was born in the Austrian Empire, in a town that is now in the Czech Republic.

He became a monk, and he was also a botanist.

He experimented with garden peas.

<p>He studied Latin, Greek, and math.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He studied for two years to get his teaching diploma.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>Reproduction is the process by which offspring are created.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They pass their genetic material and traits down to their offspring.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chromosomes are made of genes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are found in the center of cells.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Breeding is another word for reproduction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He crossbred them by moving pollen from one plant to the flower of another plant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>They interact to determine the color of animals' coats.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The commonly accepted theory before Mendel was that offspring would have traits somewhere in between those of their parents.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mendel's discoveries led to what are now called Mendel's Laws of Heredity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

<p>A phenotype is a trait you can see.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He compared the traits of the plants, such as their stem length, flower position, seed shape, seed color, and pod shape.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A gene is called a genotype.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hugo De Vries conducted similar experiments, but his research was more focused on mutations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A mutation is a sudden change in a gene that can be inherited.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rosalind Franklin took the first clear photograph of DNA.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Humans have 46 chromosomes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He died in 1884 at the age of 62.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She studied genetics through growing corn.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A jumping gene is a unique type of gene that can swap places with other genes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She was 81 years old when she won the Nobel Prize.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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

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

<p>The two components of a gene pair are alleles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A botanist studies plant life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>This process is called breeding.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chromosomes carry genes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Crossbreeding refers to breeding new plants or animals from genetically different individuals.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>This is referred to as cross-pollination.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>DNA is a twisted double strand that carries genetic information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A dominant trait masks the recessive trait.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Eugenics is a science that aims to improve the human race through selective breeding.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Fertilization involves adding a natural or chemical substance to soil to enhance plant growth.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Genes are parts of a cell's DNA that hold information and control an organism's physical development and behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>This branch of science is called genetics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Heredity is the process of transferring genetic traits from one generation to the next.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Traits are transmitted through inheritance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A monastery is a building where monks or nuns live and worship.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Nobel Prize is an annual award given to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to science, literature, peace, economics, and medicine.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The descendants of people, animals, and plants are called offspring.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Pollination involves transferring pollen from one plant to another.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A recessive allele is a gene variant that is only expressed when two copies are present.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The theory of blending suggested that offspring inherit traits that are a blend of their parents.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A trait is a characteristic that distinguishes an organism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Frank Unger was a biologist whose work interested Mendel at the University of Vienna.</p> Signup and view all the answers