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This session will cover the background and assumptions that Mendel made regarding the inheritance of particular traits, the hypotheses he developed, the experiments he performed to test the hypotheses, and the conclusions he made. In addition, how offspring acquire genes (and thus traits) from parents by inheriting chromosomes, and how the movement of chromosomes during meiosis is related to Mendel's rules of inheritance will be emphasized. Learning Objectives
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You are working with the following pea plants:
You set up three mating experiments using these plants and obtain the following results:
| Ratio of plants with following Phenotype | ||
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| Experiment | Purple flowers | White flowers |
| #1: P1 with P2 | 100 | 0 |
| #2: P1 with P3 | 100 | 0 |
| #3: P2 with P3 | 50 | 50 |
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You are studying two true-breeding varieties of plants. Flower size is controlled by the A gene and flower color is controlled by the B gene.
Parent 1: small yellow flowers
Parent 2: large red flowers
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