This web lab has five sections that are accessible through

the “Sections” button in the lower left-hand corner of the

screen. You can explore the entire web lab by clicking
through or can jump to specific sections by using the menu.
Each section is described below. Throughout the web lab
you can roll your cursor over red italicized words to see their
definitions. These definitions also appear in the glossary at
the end of these instructions.

Introduction

Mendel is your guide throughout the web lab. When he

first appears, he says, “Hello. My name is Gregor Mendel. I
lived in Austria in the 1800s long before anyone knew about
genes and genetics. I experimented with plants to study
how traits are passed from parents to offspring ad
discovered the basic rules of inheritance that are still used in
your textbooks today. Come and try some of my
experiments to see what you can discover about inheritance.
Click Next to continue.” Click the red Next button in the
lower right corner of the screen to continue.

The next text reads, “I used pea plants because they grow
quickly and easily, and it is easy to see and recognize their
different traits.” Click the red Next button in the lower right
corner of the screen to continue.
 Back To Mendel's Experiment Directory

Plant & Cross

This section of the web lab allows you to explore the traits
on which Mendel experimented, then cross pea plants to see
what offspring they produce.

Mendel says, “Plant five pea plants and observe what they
look like.” Click the Plant button. The animated Mendel will
plant and water five pea plants. You can observe the color of
the pea pod, the shape of the pod, and the color and form of
the ripe seed by rolling over the plants with your cursor.

Now, you can experiment with plant crosses. Using the five
plants that you grew, cross any plant with itself or with
another plant. After you have made five crosses, click the
Next button to move on to the following section.

Back To Mendel's Experiment Directory

Predict Results
 In this section of the web lab, you can explore plant
crosses and predict what the offspring of these crosses will
look like.

A plant with round peas and a random assortment of other

traits appears on the screen. Mendel says “Cross this plant
with itself. What pea shapes do the offspring have?” Drag
the plant into one of the Parent boxes. Click the Cross
button to cross the pea plant with itself and see five of its
offspring.

Next a plant with wrinkled peas appears on the screen.

Drag the plant into a Parent box and click the Cross button.
Mendel appears and says, “What did you learn about your
peas?”

When you click Next, two plants appear on the screen,

both with wrinkled peas. Predict whether you think the
offspring will have only wrinkle peas, only round peas, or a
mixture of pea types. Drag each plant into a Parent box,
then click the Cross button.

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Pedigree
 In this section of the web lab, you can experiment with
pea plants to try to discover which alleles are dominant and
which are recessive. You will be using a pedigree to explore
each of the traits in the pea plants. A pedigree is a diagram
of a family history used for tracing a trait through several
generations. The black and white boxes in the middle of
your screen represent pea plants. White boxes signify that a
plant has one variation of the trait, while black boxes signify
that a plant has the other variation.

Mendel says, “Using these plants, figure out how the trait
for flower color is passed on. Which color is dominant, white
or purple? This is a pedigree. You can cross plants with
themselves or with each other.”

Click on one of the boxes to highlight it. You can click on a

second plant to cross two plants or cross the plant you have
selected with itself by clicking the Cross button. Cross as
many or as few plants as you would like to try to determine
which flower color is dominant and which is recessive.

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Explore
 In this section you can explore all seven of the pea traits
that Mendel investigated. Four pea plants appear in the
pedigree. You can select which trait to explore, by using the
pulldown box in the upper left corner of the screen. When
you have determined which alleles are dominant, record
your choices in your notepad by clicking on the View
Notepad button. When the notepad appears, select the traits
that you believe are dominant and click on the Check button
to check your answers.

Glossary
Axial

Flowers located near the middle of the plant.

Dominant

Traits that appear to mask (or hide) other traits.

Pedigree

A diagram of a family history used for tracing a trait

through several generations.

Recessive
 Traits that can be hidden in one generation and then
appear in the next.

Terminal

Flowers located at the ends of the stems.

Trait

A distinguishing characteristic.
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TEACHERS NOTES

Mendel’s Experiments: Teacher's

Manual

Background
In this web lab, students experiment with garden pea
plants (Pisum sativum) as did Austrian monk Gregor Mendel
(1822-1884). Mendel chose to experiment with peas
because they possessed four important qualities:

1. Peas had been shown to be true-breeding (all offspring

will have the same characteristic generation after
generation).
2. Peas exhibit a variety of contrasting traits (purple vs.
white flowers; round vs. wrinkled seeds).
3. The shape of the pea flower protected it from foreign
pollen. Peas usually reproduce by self-pollination, in which
pollen produced by a flower fertilizes eggs in the same
flower.
4. Pea plants grow quickly and do not require much
space.

The traits that Mendel studied are listed below:

 Form of ripe seed (R) – smooth or wrinkled

  Color of seed albumen (Y) – yellow or green
 Color of flower (P) – purple or white
 Form of ripe pods (I) – inflated or constricted
 Color of unripe pods (G) – green or yellow
 Position of flowers (A) – axial or terminal
 Length of stem (T) – tall or dwarf

Back To Mendel's Experiment Directory

The Web Lab

This web lab has five sections that are accessible through
the “Sections” button in the lower left-hand corner of the
screen. Students can explore the entire web lab by clicking
through or can jump to specific sections by using the menu.
Each section is described below.

Introduction
Mendel is the guide for students throughout the web lab.
When he first appears, he says, “Hello. My name is Gregor
Mendel. I lived in Austria in the 1800s long before anyone
knew about genes and genetics. I experimented with plants
to study how traits are passed from parents to offspring ad
discovered the basic rules of inheritance that are still used in
your textbooks today. Come and try some of my
experiments to see what you can discover about inheritance.
Click Next to continue.”
 The next text reads, “I used pea plants because they grow
quickly and easily, and it is easy to see and recognize their
different traits.”

Back To Mendel's Experiment Directory

Plant & Cross

This section of the web lab allows students to explore the
traits on which Mendel experimented, then cross pea plants
to see what offspring they produce.

Mendel urges students to, “Plant five pea plants and

observe what they look like.” When students click the
“Plant” button, the animated Mendel plants and waters five
pea plants. Each of the pea plants quickly sprouts. By rolling
over the plants with the cursor, the student can see the
color of the pea pod, the shape of the pod, and the color
and form of the ripe seed.

All of the different variations of pea plant can be seen in

these growing peas, although the plants are randomly
chosen each time the application is run. After they have
planted and grown five plants, Mendel asks students how
many distinguishing traits they see in the plants. On the
next screen, he reveals that there are seven different traits:

1. Pea shape (round or wrinkled)

2. Pea color (green or yellow)
3. Pod shape (constricted or inflated)
4. Pod color (green or yellow)
5. Flower color (purple or white)
6. Plant size (tall or dwarf)
7. Position of flowers (axial or terminal)

These traits are all pictured in the plants below:

 Students are then asked to experiment with plant crosses.
Using the five plants that they grew, they can cross any
plant with itself or with another plant. Students may begin
to notice some patterns in the ways in which traits are
inherited. For example, they may recognize that a plant with
white flowers crossed with itself or another plant with white
flowers will produce only white flowered plants, while a
purple-flowered plant crossed with itself or another purple-
flowered plant sometimes produces white-flowered
offspring. By encouraging students to look at individual
traits during their experimentation, you may find that they
begin to recognize these patterns on their own.

After they have made five crosses, the Next button is

enabled and students can move on to the following section.

Back To Mendel's Experiment Directory

Predict Results
 In this section of the web lab, students explore plant
crosses and predict what the offspring of these crosses will
look like.

A plant with round peas and a random assortment of other

traits appears on the screen. Mendel says “Cross this plant
with itself. What pea shapes do the offspring have?”

When the student drags the plant into one of the Parent
boxes, the Cross button appears. When the student clicks
the Cross button, five offspring grow. Some of the offspring
from the plant with round peas have wrinkled peas. Mendel
then asks, “Were you surprised that a plant with round peas
produced some offspring with wrinkled peas?”

A plant with wrinkled peas appears on the screen and

students are asked to cross this plant with itself. As before,
when the student drags the plant into one of the Parent
boxes, the Cross button appears. When the student clicks
the Cross button, five offspring grow.

Mendel appears and says, “What did you learn about your
peas?” Students will probably recognize that, while a plant
with round peas produced some offspring with wrinkled
peas, the plant with wrinkled peas produced only offspring
with wrinkled peas. This is one key to Mendel’s
experimentation—a trait that was not apparent in a parent
generation appeared in the F1 generation.

When the student click Next, two plants appear on the

screen, both with wrinkled peas. The student is asked to
predict the offsprings’ pea shapes (both round and wrinkled;
all round; all wrinkled; or can’t predict). Because the allele
that produces wrinkled peas is recessive, the offspring of
this cross will all have wrinkled peas.

Mendel then explains the concept of dominant and

recessive alleles by saying, “By performing my experiments
with peas, I learned a lot about genetics and how traits are
passed on. I noticed that sometimes offspring seem to have
traits that their parents did not show. I called the traits that
appeared to mask (or hide) other traits dominant. I called
traits that seemed to be hidden recessive.”
 Back To Mendel's Experiment Directory

Pedigree
In this section of the web lab, students experiment with
pea plants to try to discover which alleles are dominant and
which are recessive. Using four different pea plants,
students can cross plants with themselves or with each
other to determine dominance. One strategy that students
might employ is to cross plants with themselves—offspring
that show a different trait than the parent of such a cross
possess the recessive allele (which was hidden by the
dominant allele in the parent generation).

Mendel says, “Using these plants, figure out how the trait
for flower color is passed on. Which color is dominant, white
or purple? This is a pedigree. You can cross plants with
themselves or with each other.”

When a student clicks on one of the plant symbols (a white

or a black box), the cross button appears. If the student
selects two plants, then the two plants are crossed and the
offspring appear below. If a student selects only one plant
and clicks the Cross button, then the plant self-fertilizes and
the offspring appear below. Students can cross plants as
many times as they want before deciding which allele is
dominant.

Back To Mendel's Experiment Directory

Explore
Students can explore all seven of the pea traits that
Mendel explored in this section. Four pea plants appear in
the pedigree and students can select which trait they are
looking at with the pulldown menu in the upper left corner of
the screen.

When students have determined which alleles are

dominant, they can record their choices in their notepads by
clicking on the View Notepad button. The Check button
allows students to check the answers they have input into
 their notepads. The following table shows each of the traits
and which traits are dominant and which recessive.

Dominant Recessive
Trait
Expression Expression
Form of ripe seed (R) Smooth Wrinkled
Color of seed albumen
Yellow Green
(Y)
Color of flower (P) Purple White
Form of ripe pods (I) Inflated Constricted
Color of unripe pods
Green Yellow
(G)
Position of flowers (A) Axial Terminal
Length of stem (T) Tall Dwarf

Glossary
Axial

Flowers located near the middle of the plant.

Dominant

Traits that appear to mask (or hide) other traits.

Pedigree

A diagram of a family history used for tracing a trait

through several generations.

Recessive

Traits that can be hidden in one generation and then

appear in the next.

Terminal

Flowers located at the ends of the stems.

Trait

A distinguishing characteristic.

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INSTRUCTIONS

Mendel’s Experiments: Teacher's

Manual

Background
In this web lab, students experiment with garden pea
plants (Pisum sativum) as did Austrian monk Gregor Mendel
(1822-1884). Mendel chose to experiment with peas
because they possessed four important qualities:

1. Peas had been shown to be true-breeding (all offspring

will have the same characteristic generation after
generation).
2. Peas exhibit a variety of contrasting traits (purple vs.
white flowers; round vs. wrinkled seeds).
3. The shape of the pea flower protected it from foreign
pollen. Peas usually reproduce by self-pollination, in which
pollen produced by a flower fertilizes eggs in the same
flower.
4. Pea plants grow quickly and do not require much
space.

The traits that Mendel studied are listed below:

 Form of ripe seed (R) – smooth or wrinkled

 Color of seed albumen (Y) – yellow or green
 Color of flower (P) – purple or white
 Form of ripe pods (I) – inflated or constricted
 Color of unripe pods (G) – green or yellow
 Position of flowers (A) – axial or terminal
 Length of stem (T) – tall or dwarf

Back To Mendel's Experiment Directory

The Web Lab

This web lab has five sections that are accessible through
the “Sections” button in the lower left-hand corner of the
screen. Students can explore the entire web lab by clicking
through or can jump to specific sections by using the menu.
Each section is described below.

Introduction
Mendel is the guide for students throughout the web lab.
When he first appears, he says, “Hello. My name is Gregor
Mendel. I lived in Austria in the 1800s long before anyone
knew about genes and genetics. I experimented with plants
to study how traits are passed from parents to offspring ad
discovered the basic rules of inheritance that are still used in
your textbooks today. Come and try some of my
experiments to see what you can discover about inheritance.
Click Next to continue.”

The next text reads, “I used pea plants because they grow
quickly and easily, and it is easy to see and recognize their
different traits.”

Back To Mendel's Experiment Directory

Plant & Cross

 This section of the web lab allows students to explore the
traits on which Mendel experimented, then cross pea plants
to see what offspring they produce.

Mendel urges students to, “Plant five pea plants and

observe what they look like.” When students click the
“Plant” button, the animated Mendel plants and waters five
pea plants. Each of the pea plants quickly sprouts. By rolling
over the plants with the cursor, the student can see the
color of the pea pod, the shape of the pod, and the color
and form of the ripe seed.

All of the different variations of pea plant can be seen in

these growing peas, although the plants are randomly
chosen each time the application is run. After they have
planted and grown five plants, Mendel asks students how
many distinguishing traits they see in the plants. On the
next screen, he reveals that there are seven different traits:

1. Pea shape (round or wrinkled)

2. Pea color (green or yellow)
3. Pod shape (constricted or inflated)
4. Pod color (green or yellow)
5. Flower color (purple or white)
6. Plant size (tall or dwarf)
7. Position of flowers (axial or terminal)

These traits are all pictured in the plants below:

 Students are then asked to experiment with plant crosses.
Using the five plants that they grew, they can cross any
plant with itself or with another plant. Students may begin
to notice some patterns in the ways in which traits are
inherited. For example, they may recognize that a plant with
white flowers crossed with itself or another plant with white
flowers will produce only white flowered plants, while a
purple-flowered plant crossed with itself or another purple-
flowered plant sometimes produces white-flowered
offspring. By encouraging students to look at individual
traits during their experimentation, you may find that they
begin to recognize these patterns on their own.

After they have made five crosses, the Next button is

enabled and students can move on to the following section.

Back To Mendel's Experiment Directory

Predict Results
In this section of the web lab, students explore plant
crosses and predict what the offspring of these crosses will
look like.
 A plant with round peas and a random assortment of other
traits appears on the screen. Mendel says “Cross this plant
with itself. What pea shapes do the offspring have?”

When the student drags the plant into one of the Parent
boxes, the Cross button appears. When the student clicks
the Cross button, five offspring grow. Some of the offspring
from the plant with round peas have wrinkled peas. Mendel
then asks, “Were you surprised that a plant with round peas
produced some offspring with wrinkled peas?”

A plant with wrinkled peas appears on the screen and

students are asked to cross this plant with itself. As before,
when the student drags the plant into one of the Parent
boxes, the Cross button appears. When the student clicks
the Cross button, five offspring grow.

Mendel appears and says, “What did you learn about your
peas?” Students will probably recognize that, while a plant
with round peas produced some offspring with wrinkled
peas, the plant with wrinkled peas produced only offspring
with wrinkled peas. This is one key to Mendel’s
experimentation—a trait that was not apparent in a parent
generation appeared in the F1 generation.

When the student click Next, two plants appear on the

screen, both with wrinkled peas. The student is asked to
predict the offsprings’ pea shapes (both round and wrinkled;
all round; all wrinkled; or can’t predict). Because the allele
that produces wrinkled peas is recessive, the offspring of
this cross will all have wrinkled peas.

Mendel then explains the concept of dominant and

recessive alleles by saying, “By performing my experiments
with peas, I learned a lot about genetics and how traits are
passed on. I noticed that sometimes offspring seem to have
traits that their parents did not show. I called the traits that
appeared to mask (or hide) other traits dominant. I called
traits that seemed to be hidden recessive.”

Back To Mendel's Experiment Directory

Pedigree
 In this section of the web lab, students experiment with
pea plants to try to discover which alleles are dominant and
which are recessive. Using four different pea plants,
students can cross plants with themselves or with each
other to determine dominance. One strategy that students
might employ is to cross plants with themselves—offspring
that show a different trait than the parent of such a cross
possess the recessive allele (which was hidden by the
dominant allele in the parent generation).

Mendel says, “Using these plants, figure out how the trait
for flower color is passed on. Which color is dominant, white
or purple? This is a pedigree. You can cross plants with
themselves or with each other.”

When a student clicks on one of the plant symbols (a white

or a black box), the cross button appears. If the student
selects two plants, then the two plants are crossed and the
offspring appear below. If a student selects only one plant
and clicks the Cross button, then the plant self-fertilizes and
the offspring appear below. Students can cross plants as
many times as they want before deciding which allele is
dominant.

Back To Mendel's Experiment Directory

Explore
Students can explore all seven of the pea traits that
Mendel explored in this section. Four pea plants appear in
the pedigree and students can select which trait they are
looking at with the pulldown menu in the upper left corner of
the screen.

When students have determined which alleles are

dominant, they can record their choices in their notepads by
clicking on the View Notepad button. The Check button
allows students to check the answers they have input into
their notepads. The following table shows each of the traits
and which traits are dominant and which recessive.

Dominant Recessive
Trait
Expression Expression
 Form of ripe seed (R) Smooth Wrinkled
Color of seed albumen
Yellow Green
(Y)
Color of flower (P) Purple White
Form of ripe pods (I) Inflated Constricted
Color of unripe pods
Green Yellow
(G)
Position of flowers (A) Axial Terminal
Length of stem (T) Tall Dwarf

Glossary
Axial

Flowers located near the middle of the plant.

Dominant

Traits that appear to mask (or hide) other traits.

Pedigree

A diagram of a family history used for tracing a trait

through several generations.

Recessive

Traits that can be hidden in one generation and then

appear in the next.

Terminal

Flowers located at the ends of the stems.

Trait

A distinguishing characteristic.

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TEACHERS GUIDE

Page 1 of 4 Mendel’s Experiments Background In this web lab,

students experiment with garden pea plants (Pisum sativum) as did
Austrian monk Gregor Mendel (1822-1884). Mendel chose to experiment
with peas because they possessed four important qualities: 1. Peas
had been shown to be true-breeding (all offspring will have the same
characteristic generation after generation). 2. Peas exhibit a
variety of contrasting traits (purple vs. white flowers; round vs.
wrinkled seeds). 3. The shape of the pea flower protected it from
foreign pollen. Peas usually reproduce by selfpollination, in which
pollen produced by a flower fertilizes eggs in the same flower. 4.
Pea plants grow quickly and do not require much space. The traits
that Mendel studied are listed below: ♦ Form of ripe seed (R) –
smooth or wrinkled ♦ Color of seed albumen (Y) – yellow or green ♦
Color of flower (P) – purple or white ♦ Form of ripe pods (I) –
inflated or constricted ♦ Color of unripe pods (G) – green or yellow
♦ Position of flowers (A) – axial or terminal ♦ Length of stem (T)
– tall or dwarf The Web Lab This web lab has five sections that are
accessible through the “Sections” button in the lower left-hand
corner of the screen. Students can explore the entire web lab by
clicking through or can jump to specific sections by using the menu.
Each section is described below. Introduction Mendel is the guide for
students throughout the web lab. When he first appears, he says,
“Hello. My name is Gregor Mendel. I lived in Austria in the 1800s
long before anyone knew about genes and genetics. I experimented with
plants to study how traits are passed from parents to offspring ad
discovered the basic rules of inheritance that are still used in your
textbooks today. Come and try some of my experiments to see what you
can discover about inheritance. Click Next to continue.” Page 2 of 4
The next text reads, “I used pea plants because they grow quickly
and easily, and it is easy to see and recognize their different
traits.” Plant & Cross This section of the web lab allows students
to explore the traits on which Mendel experimented, then cross pea
plants to see what offspring they produce. Mendel urges students to,
“Plant five pea plants and observe what they look like.” When
students click the “Plant” button, the animated Mendel plants and
waters five pea plants. Each of the pea plants quickly sprouts. By
rolling over the plants with the cursor, the student can see the
color of the pea pod, the shape of the pod, and the color and form of
the ripe seed. All of the different variations of pea plant can be
seen in these growing peas, although the plants are randomly chosen
each time the application is run. After they have planted and grown
five plants, Mendel asks students how many distinguishing traits they
see in the plants. On the next screen, he reveals that there are
seven different traits: 1. Pea shape (round or wrinkled) 2. Pea color
(green or yellow) 3. Pod shape (constricted or inflated) 4. Pod color
(green or yellow) 5. Flower color (purple or white) 6. Plant size
(tall or dwarf) 7. Position of flowers (axial or terminal) These
traits are all pictured in the plants below: Students are then asked
to experiment with plant crosses. Using the five plants that they
grew, they can cross any plant with itself or with another plant.
Students may begin to notice some patterns in the ways in which
traits are inherited. For example, they may recognize that a plant
with white flowers crossed with itself or another plant with white
flowers will produce only white flowered plants, while a purple-
flowered plant crossed with itself or another purple-flowered plant
sometimes produces white-flowered offspring. By encouraging students
to look at Page 3 of 4 individual traits during their
experimentation, you may find that they begin to recognize these
patterns on their own. After they have made five crosses, the Next
button is enabled and students can move on to the following section.
Predict Results In this section of the web lab, students explore
plant crosses and predict what the offspring of these crosses will
look like. A plant with round peas and a random assortment of other
traits appears on the screen. Mendel says “Cross this plant with
itself. What pea shapes do the offspring have?” When the student
drags the plant into one of the Parent boxes, the Cross button
appears. When the student clicks the Cross button, five offspring
grow. Some of the offspring from the plant with round peas have
wrinkled peas. Mendel then asks, “Were you surprised that a plant
with round peas produced some offspring with wrinkled peas?” A plant
with wrinkled peas appears on the screen and students are asked to
cross this plant with itself. As before, when the student drags the
plant into one of the Parent boxes, the Cross button appears. When
the student clicks the Cross button, five offspring grow. Mendel
appears and says, “What did you learn about your peas?” Students
will probably recognize that, while a plant with round peas produced
some offspring with wrinkled peas, the plant with wrinkled peas
produced only offspring with wrinkled peas. This is one key to
Mendel’s experimentation—a trait that was not apparent in a parent
generation appeared in the F1 generation. When the student click
Next, two plants appear on the screen, both with wrinkled peas. The
student is asked to predict the offsprings’ pea shapes (both round
and wrinkled; all round; all wrinkled; or can’t predict). Because
the allele that produces wrinkled peas is recessive, the offspring of
this cross will all have wrinkled peas. Mendel then explains the
concept of dominant and recessive alleles by saying, “By performing
my experiments with peas, I learned a lot about genetics and how
traits are passed on. I noticed that sometimes offspring seem to have
traits that their parents did not show. I called the traits that
appeared to mask (or hide) other traits dominant. I called traits
that seemed to be hidden recessive.” Pedigree In this section of the
web lab, students experiment with pea plants to try to discover which
alleles are dominant and which are recessive. Using four different
pea plants, students can cross plants with themselves or with each
other to determine dominance. One strategy that students might employ
is to cross plants with themselves—offspring that show a different
trait than the parent of such a cross possess the recessive allele
(which was hidden by the dominant allele in the parent generation).
Mendel says, “Using these plants, figure out how the trait for
flower color is passed on. Which color is dominant, white or purple?
This is a pedigree. You can cross plants with themselves or with each
other.” When a student clicks on one of the plant symbols (a white
or a black box), the cross button appears. If the student selects two
plants, then the two plants are crossed and the offspring appear
below. If a student selects only one plant and clicks the Cross
button, then the plant self-fertilizes Page 4 of 4 and the offspring
appear below. Students can cross plants as many times as they want
before deciding which allele is dominant. Explore Students can
explore all seven of the pea traits that Mendel explored in this
section. Four pea plants appear in the pedigree and students can
select which trait they are looking at with the pulldown menu in the
upper left corner of the screen. When students have determined which
alleles are dominant, they can record their choices in their notepads
by clicking on the View Notepad button. The Check button allows
students to check the answers they have input into their notepads.
The following table shows each of the traits and which traits are
dominant and which recessive. Trait Dominant Expression Recessive
Expression Form of ripe seed (R) Smooth Wrinkled Color of seed
albumen (Y) Yellow Green Color of flower (P) Purple White Form of
ripe pods (I) Inflated Constricted Color of unripe pods (G) Green
Yellow Position of flowers (A) Axial Terminal Length of stem (T) Tall
Dwarf Glossary Axial Flowers located near the middle of the plant.
Dominant Traits that appear to mask (or hide) other traits. Pedigree
A diagram of a family history used for tracing a trait through
several generations. Recessive Traits that can be hidden in one
generation and then appear in the next. Terminal Flowers located at
the ends of the stems. Trait A distinguishing characteristic.