Gregor Mendel Flashcards
What were mendels 2 jobs?
Botanist and monk
What plants did Mendel look after and what did he make sure they stayed?
He looked after pea plants and made sure they stayed pure strains
Define Pure strains
Organisms that are never cross bred
Where and when was Gregor Mendel?
1800’s- Czechoslovakia(or Austria)
what two types of peas did Mendel cross?
green and yellow
how do you represent cross breeding?
organism x organism
define “P”
Parent organism
define “F1”
First generation of offspring
what does he number in f1,f2,f3 etc. stand for?
What generation off offspring it is
What were the color of Mendel’s F1’s and why was he confused by this?
yellow, and he was confused because he knew there was green pea DNA in the f1’s, yet they were still yellow
what did Mendel cross the F1’s with?
green peas
what are the f1’s x green peas called?
F2’s
What did the f2’s look like?
there was a mix of green peas and yellow
What was the ratio of yellow peas to green peas in the F2’s?
3 to 1
how did Mendel prove his research?
he did it with several types of peas
