Mendel's Pea Plant Experiments and the Inheritance of Traits Quiz

Gregor Mendel is known as the 'Father of Genetics' for his pioneering work on inheritance in pea plants.

Gregor Mendel used pea plants in his experiments to study inheritance patterns.

Mendel used a brush to transfer pollen between pea plants in his experiments.

Mendel called the factors that determine traits in organisms 'genes'.

Phenotype refers to the physical appearance of an organism, determined by its genetic makeup and environmental factors.

An organism with two different alleles for a particular trait is called heterozygous.

Mendel prevented self-pollination in pea plants by covering flowers with a bag to control pollination.

Root length was not one of the seven characteristics of pea plants Mendel studied in his experiments on inheritance.

In the first filial generation (F1) of a monohybrid cross, the ratio of offspring displaying the dominant trait to those displaying the recessive trait is 3:1.

Mendel concluded that traits are inherited through discrete units called genes.

The offspring resulting from a cross between parents with contrasting traits in Mendel's experiments are called monohybrids.

In the second filial generation (F2) of a monohybrid cross, the expected phenotypic ratio is 9:3:3:1.

Incomplete dominance is the inheritance pattern where one allele is not completely dominant over another allele, resulting in an intermediate phenotype.

Epistasis refers to the occurrence of one gene masking the effect of another gene at a different locus.