Lorraine Sanchez

STEM 11-A

1. What did Mendel do in his first experiment?

 Mendel first experimented the color characteristic of a flower. By doing so,
he cross pollinated violet-flowered parent plant and white-flowered parent
plant.
2. What was the outcome of the F1 generation in Mendel’s experiment?
 As a result of his first experiment with the two flowered parent plant who
has different color, it comes up with an all purple-flowered plants. And
surprisingly there is no white flower that is why he wondered what
happenend in this trait.
3. What was the outcome of the F2 generation in Mendel’s experiment?
 White flowers were found on some F2 generation plants. He looked at
hundreds of F2 generation plants and found that there was an average of one
white-flowered plant for every three violet-flowered plants.
4. Did Mendel repeat his initial experiment with other characteristics? What were
his results?
 Mendel did the same experiment for all the seven characteristics. In each
case, one value of the characteristic disappeared in the F1 plants and then
showed up again in the F2 plants. And in each case, 75% of F2 plants had
one value of the characteristic and 25% had the other vlue.
5. Explain the law of segregation. Discuss the reasoning Mendel used to develop
his law.
 Gregor Mendel’s observation of heredity in pea plants led him to define the
law of segregration which states that a parent gives just one allele for each
trait to each gamete they produce. An organism has two copies of each gene,
the different versions of these copies are called alleles. The organism could
be homozygous carrying two of the same allele for a gene or heterozygous
carrying two different alleles for that gene.