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1. What is heredity?
The passing of traits from parents to offspring
5. List the three reasons that Mendel chose the pea plant.
The pea plant has many traits that have two forms that are easy to tell apart
Mating of the plants can be controlled
Peas are small, they grow easily, mature quickly, and produce many offspring
7. In the first step of his experiment Mendel allowed the plants to ________-________________. This
was important because it produced __________ __________________ plants. This generation is
known as the ___ generation.
Self-pollinate, true breeding, P
8. In the second step of his experiment, Mendel _________-_______________. The offspring of the P
generation are known as the ___ generation.
Cross-pollinated, F1
9. In the third step of the experiment Mendel allowed the plants to ___________-
___________________. These offspring are called the ____ generation.
Cross-pollinate, F2
11. What was the ratio of the dominant phenotype to recessive phenotype that Mendel observed?
3 to 1
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12. Finish the following statement from your notes: For each inherited trait…
An individual has two copies of the gene, one from each parent.
22. If the phenotype is dominant but the genotype is unknown what type of cross would you perform?
Testcross
28. In cats, long hair is recessive to short hair. A true-breeding (homozygous) short-haired male is mated
to a long-haired female. What will their kittens look like?
All Ll; all short haired
29. Mrs. And Mr. Jones both have widow’s peaks (dominant). Their first child also has a widow’s peak,
but their second child doesn’t. Mr. Jones accuses Mrs. Jones of being unfaithful to him. Is he
Name: ________________________ Date: _________
necessarily justified? Why or why not?
No they could both be Ww
30. Mate a rooster that is homozygous for curly feathers with a hen that is heterozygous for straight
feathers. Straight feathers are dominant to curly feathers.
a. Choose one letter to represent the allele for curly feathers _______ and straight feathers __________.
______________ X _______________
c. List the gametes for each parent: _____ _____ and ____ ____
d. What are the chances of the offspring having curly feathers? ___________.
e. What are the chances of the offspring having straight feathers? _________.
a. S, s
b. ss x Ss
c. ss,Ss
d. 1/2
e. 1/2