L-18 Flashcards
1
Q
What is the pea flower cross pollination technique?
A
- remove stamens from purple flower
- transfer sperm-bearing pollen from stamens of white flower to egg bearing carpel of purple flower
- waited for pollinated carpel to mature into pod
- planted seeds from pod
- examine offspring: all purple flowers
2
Q
What are Mendels laws?
A
- law of segregation
- independent assortment
3
Q
What is the law of segregation?
A
Genes segregate at meiosis so that each gamete contains only one of the two possessed by the parent
4
Q
What is the law of independent assortment?
A
Alleles of different genes assort independently during gamete formation
