Mendel's Pea Plants and Genetics

What organism did Mendel use to prove his 3 main ideas about inheritance?

• ants

• pigeons

• dogs

• pea plants

What did Mendel call the two kinds of traits exhibited by the pea plants (one coming from the father, one from the mother)?

• Genesis
• Elective traits
• Alleles
• Quadrants

Gregor Mendel is known as the father of _________

• Modern Medicine
• Father of the Green Revolution
• Father of Genitics
• The Pea Plant Man

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Before Mendel how did people think you got your traits

• equal from each parent
• more from the dad
• more from the mom
• from a stork

If a pea plant has a recessive allele for green peas, it will produce

• green peas if it also has a dominant allele for yellow peas
• green and yellow peas if it has a dominant allele for yellow
• green peas if it doesn't have a dominant allele for yellow peas
• yellow peas if it doesn't have a dominant allele for green peas. 

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If a pea plant's alleles for height are tt, what is true of its parents? 

• both parents were tall
• both parents were short
• both parents contributed a recessive allele
• both parents contributed a dominant allele

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Gregor Mendel’s principles of genetics apply to

• plants only
• animals only 
• pea plants only 
• all organisms that reproduce sexually

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The passing of genetic traits from parent to offspring is called

• cross-pollination
• cross-breeding
• heredity
• genetics

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What step did Mendel take to be sure that his pea plants did not self-pollinate?

• He used two white plants.
• He removed the anthers of one plant.
• He added the anthers to both plants
• He used plants that were not true breeding

Each pea plant had _____alleles for each trait.

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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