Mendel's work

Physical characteristics are called

• alleles

• genes

• traits

• heredity

The study of heredity

• geology

• genetics

• geography

• hereditology

The passing of traits from offspring to parents

• genes

• heredity

• alleles

• purebred

The father of genetics

• Newton

• Tesla

• Hooke

• Mendel

A organism that always produces offspring with the same form of the trait as the parent

• dominant

• recessive

• purebred

• hybrid

The parent generation is abbreviated as

• F1

• F2

• P

The offspring from a cross are called the first filial (meaning son) or

• P generation

• F1 generation

• F2 generation

True or False: Mendel studied traits in pea plants such as height, seed shape and seed color.

• True

• False

There are different forms of genes called

• traits

• alleles

• dominant

• recessive

True or False: Alleles can be dominant or recessive.

• True

• False