Mendel and Punnett Squares

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Gregor Mendel is often called ....

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The father of genetics.

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Example of phenotype:

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blue eyes

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What type of plants did Gregor Mendel experiment with?

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Pea Plants

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What would a homozygous recessive allele look like?

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ff

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What would a homozygous dominant allele look like?

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AA

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Phenotypes from a cross Rr x Rr for pea shape (R = round, r = wrinkled)?

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Round: 75%, Wrinkled: 25%

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Phenotypes from a cross rr x Rr for pea shape?

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Round: 50%, Wrinkled: 50%

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True or False: The way to set up a Punnett Square is to draw a box with four quadrants, put one parent's alleles on the top of the box, and one parent's alleles on the left side of the box.

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True

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Example of a genotype:

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Rr

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Punnett Squares are used to find out the probability of a gene being observed in offspring.

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True