Genetics and Gregor Mendel

Known as the father of modern genetics:

• Watson

• Crick

• Darwin

• Mendel

Why did Mendel pick pea plant to study

• He used pea plants because they grow everywhere

• He used pea plants because they grow quickly and have many traits to examine.

• He used pea plant because they are resistance to plagues.

Mendel discovered:

• all traits of offspring come from one parent

• traits of offspring were caused by the environment.

• traits are passed on from parents to offspring

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Who is known as the "Father of Genetics" for the work he did with pea plants?

• Charles Darwin

• Gregor Mendel

• Albert Einstein

• Benjamin Franklin

What type of organism did Mendel use to study genetics?

• fruit flies

• dogs

• potato plants

• pea plants

Are recessive traits shown with capital or lowercase letters? 

• Capital
• Lowercase

The physical appearance or the way a gene looks is known as it's....

• genotype

• phenotype

Two different genes for a trait. Bb

• heterozygous

• homozygous

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A ________________________ is used to predict the possible genotype from certain parents

• Mendel Grid
• Genetic Tic Tac Toe
• Punnett Square
• Pedigree Plot

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Heredity is the passing of traits from _____________________ to _____________________

• predators to prey
• water to rain
• parents to offspring
• fungi to protists

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