HEREDITY
MONOHYBRID CROSS
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Question
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What did Gregor Mendel discover in the results of his first set of crosses?
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Only the dominant trait appeared!
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The offspring were all different!
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Only the recessive trait appeared!
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The plants were more healthy
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -He found that each trait was inherited independently of the other and produced its own 3:1 ratio. This is the principle of independent assortment. Find out more about Mendel’s principles of inheritance.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gregor Mendel, through his work on pea plants, discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first generation cross was termed P plants (parental). He named the first generation offspring F1 progeny because they were tall. He let the F1 generation self fertilize, and noticed that the F2 generation had BOTH tall and short plants in a ratio of 3:1!
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