Mendel and His Peas School to Home LESSON 1 1.

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LESSON 1
Mendel and His Peas
Directions: Use your textbook to answer each question or respond to each statement.
1. Gregor Mendel is often called the father of genetics.
What is heredity, and how does it relate to genetics?
2. Gregor Mendel proved that the idea of blended inheritance was wrong.
What was the idea of blended inheritance, and how did Mendel prove it wrong?
3. In Mendel’s experiments, true-breeding purple flowering pea plants
What was the result when Mendel cross-pollinated true-breeding purple flowering
plants and true-breeding white flowering plants? Relate this to the idea of blended
inheritance.
4. Mendel cross-pollinated second-generation purple-flowering hybrids.
What was the result of the second-generation cross, and why was it important?
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were crossed to produce purple flowering offspring. True-breeding white
flowering pea plants were crossed to produce white flowering offspring.