The study of ______ is called genetics.

Parents pass their traits down to the offspring through their _____________.

Why did Mendel use cross pollination in his experiments?

Fertilization that occurs when pollen from one plant reaches the pistil of a flower on a different plant

Fertilization that occurs when pollen from one plant lands on the pistil of a flower on the same plant

Plants that produce the same traits as parents when they are self pollinated

What did Mendel conclude about inherited traits?

When Mendel crossed a true breeding purple flower plant with a true breeding white flower plants, what percent of the offspring were purple?

A plant produces beautiful red flower, but sometimes it has white flowers. If she crosses both plants as shown here (in the image), 50% of the offspring will have red flowers.

Mendel tested _______ plants.

Recessive traits are always shown in an organism's offspring.

A true-breeding purple plant and a true-breeding white plant cross-pollinate. The offspring will be _________.

*Purple is the dominant trait

What did Mendel find the ratio to be of dominant to recessive traits in a cross between two hybrid parents?

A man and a woman want to have a child, but the man is heterozygous (Cc) for a recessive trait that causes a fatal illness. What is the probability of a child's inheriting the trait?

Kari has two pet rats with black fur. When her rats mated, on of their four offspring had white fur, and the other three had black fur. Which is most likely true for Kari's rats?

Mendel recorded all of the following traits except for _____.

Two blue flowers are crossed. One is homozygous and one is heterozygous for flower color. If blue is the dominant allele and white is recessive, what will be the ratio of colors in the offspring of plants?

Bird A has the genotype ll for bill length, Bird B is LL. The bills of their offspring would be: