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Chapter 5 Mendel’s Work
Gregory Mendel experimented with hundreds of pea plants to understand the process of
____________.
Heredity: ______________________
Genetics: ______________________
Traits: ________________________
Mendel’s Peas
In a flower, the female sex cells, or eggs, are produced by the ______________________.
Pollen, which contains the male sex cells, or sperm, is produced by the
___________________.
Mendel’s Experiments
Purebred plants are ___________________________________________________.
In Mendel’s first experiment purebred _____________ were crossed with purebred
_____________. Parent plants were called _________ or the P ______________.
Offspring called the first _________ or the F _______________.
Filial mean ____________ in ______________.
Other Traits
Mendel studied six other traits, _________, ___________, ____________,
_____________, _____________, ______________.
Two forms of seed shapes were __________ and ______________.
Dominant and Recessive Alleles
Parents contribute ______ allele to each child.
Alleles are ____________________________________.
The gene for height has one allele for _________ and one allele for ____________.
Dominant trait: _________________________________________.
Recessive trait: _________________________________________.
A purebred short pea plant has ________ ___________ alleles.
A purebred tall pea plant has __________ __________ alleles.
A hybrid pea plant has one __________ allele and one __________ allele.
Dominant Allele - ____________ letter.
Recessive Allele - ____________ letter.