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Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk whose famous work was done in the garden
with ___________________.
During Mendels time people assumed that if a white squirrel and a black squirrel
were to have babies, the baby would be _________________.
After breeding purely purple flowering plants with purely white flowering plants
Mendel discovered three important things.
If a plant inherited one purple and one white allele, what color would the offspring's flowers
be? ____________________ (because it is dominant).
Law of Segregation
The offspring receives one allele from __________ and one from __________.
Of the two alleles the ________________ one is the trait the offspring will express.
If both alleles are ____________________, then the recessive trait will be expressed.
Traits that have been shown to operate under Mendels Laws are called
____________________ traits.
Example: What are the potential outcomes of crossing a pure purple flowering plant
with a pure white flowering plant?
The dominant allele is labeled with an upper case letter, while the recessive allele gets the lower case
version of the same letter.
Step 2 Draw your Punnett Square and write one parents alleles on one side and the other
parents on a different side.
What are the potential outcomes of crossing homozygous purple plant with a
heterozygous purple plant?
Homozygous (purebred) an individual with two of the same alleles (PP or pp)
Cross a purebred white flowering plant with a hybrid purple flowering plant.