Chapter 11: Mendel's Principles Flashcards
1
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Mendel studied specific heritable features that had alternative forms
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characters and character differences
2
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pea plants can _____
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self-fertilize or self-pollinate
3
Q
Mendel prevented self-fertilization by cutting off the anthers, and used pollen from a different plant to fertilize the flowers
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cross fertilization or cross pollination
4
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adult plants carry a pair of factors (alleles of genes) that govern the inheritance of each trait
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first hypothesis
5
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if an individual’s pair of genes consists of different alleles one allele is dominant over the other, which is recessive
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second hypothesis
6
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pairs of alleles segregate as gametes are formed; half the gametes are carry on allele, and the other half carry the other allele
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third hypothesis
Principle of Segregation
