Review:

1. Blending Theory of Inheritance is a theory that was popular during Mendel’s time. This
theory states that the offspring will show the mix or combined characteristics of his/her
parents. This theory explains how parents passed their traits to their offspring through
gametes.
Mendel questioned this theory because of the experiment he conducted on pea plants.
On his experiment, he noticed that some plants weren’t show the combined traits of its
parents.

2. The seven characteristics that Mendel investigated in pea plants are: seed shape, seed
color, pod shape, pod color, flower location, flower color, and plant size.

3. Through removing the anthers, which is part of a stamen that contains the pollen,
Mendel was able to control pollination in plants.

4. Hybrid is a term used to define an offspring produced from a cross between parents of
different species or sub-species.

Review:
1. Mendel started his experiment by just experimenting one characteristic of pea plants
only one at a time. White-flowered and purple-flowered plants were cross pollinated by
Mendel, and this was considered as the P (parent) generation.

2. Law of Segregation, which is commonly known as Mendel’s First Law of Inheritance,

states that two alleles for a heritable character separate (or segregate) during gamete
formation and end up in different gametes.

3. If I were to conduct experiment in stem length of pea plants, I let the offspring of the
pea plants parents self-pollinate by itself. By doing this, I’m expecting that the outcome
lengths of the second generation of offspring were MEDIUM-sized lengths (combined
traits of long and small size).
Review:
1. Punnett Square is a diagram in a form of square used to cross-breed the parental
genotypes (P Generation) to know or predict their offspring’s possible genotypes and
phenotypes (F1, F2 generation, etc.).

S s
s Ss ss
s Ss ss
2. Ss - long stem pea plants - 50%
ss - short stem pea plants - 50%

3. The letter that should replace the question mark is letter “a”. On the second row, one of
the possible genotype is Aa. If one of one parent has A allele, the other parent must
have “a” allele on his/her genotype to obtain the Aa genotype. On the third row, one of
the possible genotype of the offspring is Aa. If one of one parent has A allele, the other
parent must have “a” allele on his/her genotype to obtain the Aa genotype. Therefore,
the genotype of the other parent is “aa”.

4. The Punnett Square for monohybrid cross consists of 4 possible genotypes for offspring
(4 squares) while the Punnett Square for a dihybrid cross consists of 16 possible
genotypes for offspring (16 squares).