mendelian genetics

Question 1

the experiments of ___ laid
foundation for the formal discipline of genetics

Answer 1

Gregor Johann Mendel

Question 2

Mendel use__

Answer 2

Pisum sativum, or garden pea

Question 3

He determined that discrete units of inheritance exist
and predicted their behavior in the formation of
gametes

Answer 3

Gregor Johann Mendel

Question 4

He first reported the results of simple genetic
crosses between certain variants garden peas in
___

Answer 4

1865

Question 5

He followed ___ visible features (characters or
characteristics), each represented by two contrasting
forms (traits)

Answer 5

seven

Question 6

He obtained ___ strains from local seed
merchants

Answer 6

true-breeding

Question 7

Involved only one pair of contrasting traits

Answer 7

Monohybrid Cross

Question 8

It is made by mating true-breeding individuals
from two parent strains, each exhibiting one of the
two contrasting forms of the character under study

Answer 8

The Monohybrid Cross

Question 9

The original parents are the P1 (__)

Answer 9

parental
generation

Question 10

), their offspring are the F1 (___; , and the individuals resulting from
selfed F1 generation are F2 (__

Answer 10

first filial generation; second filial
generation)

Question 11

Genetic data are usually expressed and analyzed as
__

Answer 11

ratios

Question 12

To explain the results of the crosses, Mendel
proposed the existence of __ for each
trait

Answer 12

unit factors