12 Questions
What type of plants did Gregor Mendel use in his hybridization experiments?
Garden peas
What is the ratio of the F2 generation that Mendel obtained after self-fertilizing the F1 generation?
3:1
How many pea plants did Gregor Mendel cultivate and test during his experiments?
28,000
What does the capital A represent in the context of Mendel's genetics?
The dominant factor
What is the name of the paper in which Gregor Mendel described his laws of inheritance?
Experiments on Plant Hybridization
According to the Law of Segregation, how many alleles does an individual possess for each trait?
Two
What term did Gregor Mendel use to describe the units of heredity?
Factors
What is the term for an individual with two different alleles for a trait?
Heterozygous
What is the result of crossing true-breeding white flower and true-breeding purple flower plants?
Purple flowers
What is the physical appearance of an individual determined by?
Its alleles and its environment
What happens to the factors (genes) during the formation of sex cells?
They segregate
What is the condition for the Law of Independent Assortment to hold?
The genes are on separate chromosomes
Learn about Gregor Mendel's experiments with garden peas and his discovery of the laws of inheritance. Understand how he cultivated and tested thousands of pea plants and deduced two generalizations that became known as Mendel's Laws of Heredity. Test your knowledge of Mendelian inheritance!
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