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He chose these traits because they show only one of the two
contrasting characteristics
The different forms of a gene that
produce traits
Are called alleles
The first cross breeding of different parent
plants creates a hybrid filial
Also called F1 generation
Crosses between parents with different traits
are called hybrids
When Mendel crossed true breeding tall pea
plants with true breeding short plants he
created a hybrid
Mendel crossed tall and short pea plants to create a hybrid
All of the offspring in the F1 generation were tall because the allele
for the tall trait was dominant over the allele for the short trait
Did the allele for the recessive trait disappear?
When he let the F1 generation self pollinate the recessive trait re-appeared
At some point, the recessive allele segregated from the dominant allele
When Mendel repeated other crosses he obtained similar results
Which traits for the pea color and parakeet color are recessive?
How do you know?
Mendel realized that the principal of probability can be used
to predict the outcome of genetic crosses
Mendel found that traits would follow the laws of probability and show
independent assortment
Found that different traits can segregate independently during fertilization
Intermediate inheritance
Purely dominant and recessive traits
are rare in nature
Many genes show an intermediate
inheritance
Incomplete dominance is when neither
allele dominates over the other
Shows a blending of the two traits
When different dominant traits are crossed and both are present
in the offspring this is co-dominance