mendel and the gene idea

Question 1

gregor mendel

Answer 1

discovered the basic principles of heredity through his work with garden peas

Question 2

in the 1800’s, the favoured explanation of heredity was the?

Answer 2

blending hypothesis

Question 3

mendels work showed that?

Answer 3

this was not correct. he showed that discrete heritable units: genes: are passed on from parents to offspring

Question 4

these “discrete heritable units: genes” give rise?

Answer 4

to separate identities in offspring from generation to generation

Question 5

mendel studied…?

Answer 5

7 different characters of pea plants

Question 6

what is a character?

Answer 6

visible heritable feature that varies among individuals

Question 7

what is a trait?

Answer 7

each variant of a character is called a trait

Question 8

what was an advantage of using the pea plant?

Answer 8

• easy to grow
• easy to cross breed experimentally
• grows to maturity in a single season
• many varieties

Question 9

in mendels experiments, he ?

Answer 9

crossed two contrasting, true breeding varieties of pea plants

Question 10

what is true breeding?

Answer 10

upon self-pollination, an organism will give rise to offspring of the same variety each time