Mendelian Genetics

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• Why did gregor mendel use garden peas in his studies?
• How did gregor mendel learn about heredity?
• What are mendel's laws of inheritance ?
• How are deviations from mendel's laws of inheritance explained?
• How does the law of independent assortment increase variation?
• What is the theory of particulate inheritance?
• What does Mendel’s law of segregation state?
• What is the purpose of performing a test cross?
• Who is Gregor Mendel?
• What is a Mendelian trait?
• What are the similarities between Mendelian genetics and polygenic inheritance?
• What is the Mendelian ratio?
• Are genes are the basic units of inheritance?
• What did Mendel's dihybrid cross prove?
• Why is Mendelian genetics important?
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• What was Gregor Mendel's experiment with pea plants?
• Is there any reason for why the O blood group is rear compared to other blood group?
• A scientist doing research found that flower color and pollen shape were traits that were always passed together. That is, they did not fit Mendel's rule for independent assortment. Why might that be?
• What was the first generation of offspring in Mendel's experiment called?
• What best describes Mendel's hypotheses regarding gametes?
• Tall pea plants are dominant over short pea plants. If there are 200 short plants in the F2 generation from a cross that followed Menders methods, about how many plants from will be tall in that generation?
• Mendel's First Law is known as the Law of?
• What is a monohybrid Cross?
• What could be an example of sex influenced trait?
• What happened in Mendel's experiments when a pea plant received two different alleles for the same trait?
• In some plants,where flowering occurs more than once,what would you call the inter-flowering period-"Juvenile" or "mature" ?
• Why are identical twins identical?
• What can hybrids not do that their parents can?
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• Which of Mendel's laws states that each sex cell (sperm or egg) contains only one factor for each inherited trait?
• What is the significance of the ratio of 9:3:3:1 in Mendelian Genetics (i.e. dihybrid cross)?
• In Mendel's experiments, what type of trait appeared most often in the second generation?
• Why is it important for Mendel's pea plant to be a purebred variety?
• a set of dizygotic twins share mother's womb and are born together but do not share same genes. How is it possible?
• What does the law of dominance state?
• A plant can produce either purple flowers or white flowers. What is the probability of purple-flowered offspring if two plants that are heterozygous for purple flowers are crossed?
• What are the sequence of steps in Mendel's cross-pollination process?
• What is Mendel's law of independent assortment?
• How did Mendel come to work with pea plants?
• What did Mendel discover about genetic factors in pea plants?