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Mendel's Experiment
Independent Assortment
Extensions to Mendel
Genetic Counseling
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Solution: The pea plant (Pisum sativum) is a good choice for studying heredity because it:  a. Develops slowly b. Produces only a few offspring c. Is easy to control which plants mate with each other d. Has

Problem

The pea plant (Pisum sativum) is a good choice for studying heredity because it: 

a. Develops slowly

b. Produces only a few offspring

c. Is easy to control which plants mate with each other

d. Has only a few traits that appear in two easily distinguishable forms

e. All are correct

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Practice Problems
The pea plant (Pisum sativum) is a good choice for...
Mendel called a trait that is masked:  a. Homozyg...
An allele that exerts its effects whenever it is p...
Gray seed color in peas is dominant to white. Assu...
When Mendel crossed short (tt) pea plants with sho...
When Mendel crossed tall (Tt) plants with tall pla...
If the two alleles for a particular gene are diffe...
If an individual is heterozygous for a particular ...
If an individual is homozygous for a particular tr...
Genotype means:  a. The number of gametes in an i...
Phenotype means:   a. The number of gametes in an...
The "P" in P generation:  a. Refers to pure breed...
In the study of genetics the offspring of the pare...
A monohybrid cross is a mating between two individ...
If a scientist wanted to carry out a monohybrid cr...
Mendel's monohybrid cross of "Tt" parents resulted...
Any monohybrid cross consisting of one dominant an...
In the following problem, capital letters will be ...
If you cross two pea plants, one with green peas a...
If a pea plant is homozygous for yellow seeds (YY)...
If you cross two heterozygous Yy pea plants, what ...
The locus T (2 alleles, T1= tall plants and G2=sho...
Why was it important that Mendel made sure that hi...Define the following terms: true breeding, hybridi...Summarize the relationship between a gene and an a...Mendel found that yellow pea pod color (G) was dom...Which of the following does NOT represent genotype...Two trait crosses using pea plants: You may use th...If offspring exhibit a 3:1 phenotypic ratio, what ...
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