Mendels Genetics

1. Go to the following webpage: http://anthro.palomar.edu/mendel/mendel_1.htm

2. Read through the lesson and answer the following questions:
a. Define hybrid.
b. Define genetics.
c. Identify the genus and species of the common pea plant.
d. Define cross-pollinated.
e. Identify the seven characteristics and varying traits observed by Gregor
Mendel.
f. Define purebred.
g. Define genes.
h. Differentiate between homozygous and heterozygous.
i. Differentiate between genotype and phenotype.
j. Differentiate between dominant and recessive.
k. Explain the principle of segregation.
l. Explain the principle of independent assortment.
m. Define chromosomes.
3. At the bottom of the webpage click on Practice Quiz and answer the following
questions:
a. Gregor Mendel was:
b. Which of the following statements is true about Mendel?
c. Mendel believed that the characteristics of pea plants are determined by
the:
d. An allele is:
e. Phenotype refers to the ______________________ of an individual.
f. When the genotype consists of a dominant and a recessive allele, the
phenotype will be like _________________ allele.
g. Assuming that both parent plants in the diagram below are homozygous,
why would all of the f1 generation have yellow phenotypes?
h. The idea that different pairs of alleles are passed to offspring independently
is Mendel's principle of:
i. In the diagram below, what accounts for the green pea seed in the f2
generation?
j. The idea that for any particular trait, the pair of alleles of each parent
separate and only one allele from each parent passes to an offspring is
Mendel's principle of: