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Mendelian Inheritance

Biology ⇒ Genetics and Heredity

Mendelian Inheritance starts at 8 and continues till grade 12. QuestionsToday has an evolving set of questions to continuously challenge students so that their knowledge grows in Mendelian Inheritance. How you perform is determined by your score and the time you take. When you play a quiz, your answers are evaluated in concept instead of actual words and definitions used.
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Describe Mendel’s Law of Dominance.
Describe what is meant by a monohybrid cross.
Explain the difference between dominant and recessive alleles.
Explain why Mendel’s work was not recognized until after his death.
If a plant with genotype YY is crossed with a plant with genotype yy, what will be the genotype of all F1 offspring?
In a dihybrid cross, what is the typical phenotypic ratio observed in the F2 generation?
What do we call an organism with two different alleles for a trait?
What is the genotype of a homozygous dominant individual for a trait represented by the letter A?
What is the main reason Mendel chose pea plants for his experiments?
What is the purpose of a Punnett square?
What is the ratio of genotypes in the F2 generation of a monohybrid cross?
What is the result of crossing a homozygous dominant (AA) with a homozygous recessive (aa) individual?
What is the term for the genetic makeup of an organism?
Which law explains the independent inheritance of two different traits?
Who is known as the father of genetics?