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The Work of Gregor Mendel

The Work of Gregor Mendel . Section 11–1. GENETICS. The scientific study of heredity is called . Genetics. Gregor Mendel’s peas. b. When pollen fertilizes an egg cell, a seed for a new plant is formed. c. Pea plants normally reproduce by self-pollination.

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The Work of Gregor Mendel

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  1. The Work of Gregor Mendel Section 11–1

  2. GENETICS • The scientific study of heredity is called . • Genetics

  3. Gregor Mendel’s peas. b. When pollen fertilizes an egg cell, a seed for a new plant is formed. c. Pea plants normally reproduce by self-pollination.

  4. What does it mean when pea plants are described as being true-breeding? If the plants are allowed to self-pollinate, they would produce offspring identical to themselves.

  5. Mendel the Monk • To perform his experiments, how did Mendel prevent pea flowers from self-pollinating and control their cross-pollination? He cut away the pollen-bearing male parts of a flower and dusted that flower with pollen from another plant.

  6. Traits • Traits • Specific characteristics that vary from one individual to another.

  7. Hybrid • Hybrid • The offspring of crosses between parents with different traits.

  8. Genes • Genes • Chemical factors that determine traits

  9. Alleles • Alleles • The different forms of a gene

  10. Principle of Dominance • State the principle of dominance. • Some alleles are dominant and others are recessive.

  11. Dominance vs. Recessive • Is the following sentence true or false? • An organism with a recessive allele for aparticular form of a trait will always exhibit that form. • False

  12. Dominance vs. Recessive • Circle the letters of the traits controlled by dominant alleles in Mendel’s pea plants. • a. tall • c. yellow

  13. Segregation

  14. Mendel’s Experiment How did Mendel find out whether the recessive alleles were still present in theF1 plants? • He allowed the F1 plants to produce an F2 generation by self-pollination.

  15. Mendel’s Experiment • About one fourth of the F2 plants from Mendel’s F1 crosses showed the trait controlled by the allele.

  16. Mendel’s Experiment • Circle the letter of each sentence that is true about Mendel’s explanation of the results from his F1 cross. • Mendel assumed that a dominant allele had masked the corresponding recessiveallele in the F1 generation. d. At some point, the allele for shortness was segregated, or separated, from the allelefor tallness.

  17. Genetics • What are gametes? • They are the sex cells.

  18. Segregation of Alleles In the diagram above, the dominant allele is represented by T and the recessive allele is represented by t .

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