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BISC 101
biology 101
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| According to their thinking, the mating of a black horse to a white horse should produce a _?_ colored horse; but it didn’t always. | Grey |
| _?_ _?_ was the Austrian monk who performed experiments in his garden to disprove the blending idea of inheritance. | Gregor Mendel |
| What organism did Mendel use to perform his experiments? | Pea flower |
| Even though the flower of the pea plant is equipped for _?_-fertilizing, Mendel modified the flowers so he could cross-pollinate the plants. | Self |
| If an organism, say pea plant, “breeds true” what does that mean? | All offspring have the same form of the trait as the parent |
| • The molecule of heredity; (identified in 1950s) • Mendel called them “units;” we call them _?_. • Alternative forms of the same gene; • Term for individual with identical genes for a trait; • _?_-type refers to the alleles an individual carries; • | • DNA • Genes • Alleles • Homozygous • Genotype • Mutation • Phenotype • Heterozygous • Dominant/ recessive • Hetro • Homo/ dominant • Homo/ recessive |