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Mendel and His Peas
Life Science 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| heredity | the passing of traits from parents to offspring |
| Born in 1822 in Heinzendorf, Austria | Gregor Mendel |
| Where did Mendel go after completing his studies at the university? | to a monastery |
| Where did he work in the monastery? | the garden |
| How did he use the plants in the garden? | He studied the way traits are passed from parent to offspring |
| offspring | the product of reproduction, a new organism produced by one or more parents |
| generation | the offspring of a certain parent or parents |
| self-pollinating plant | contains both male and female reproductive structures |
| pollen from one flower of plant can fertilize the eggs of the same flower | self-pollinating flower or plant |
| male reproductive structure | anther |
| female reproductive structure | stigma |
| in a plant, the sperm is in... | the pollen |
| the egg is in the ... | ovule |
| the ovule is in the .... | ovary |
| the three methods of pollination | self-pollination, by animals, by wind |