Assignment
1. Why did Mendel study pea plants?
2. What is the blending theory of inheritance and why is it important?
3. Explain the law of segregation.
4. Explain the law of independent assortment.
5. Explain the difference between the F1 generation and the F2 generation.
6. What is the difference between genotype and phenotype?
7. Why would a testcross be important in genetics?
8. Assume you are investigating the inheritance of stem length in pea plants. You cross-pollinate a short-stemmed plant with a long-stemmed plant. All of the offspring have long stems. Then, you let the offspring self-pollinate. Describe the stem lengths you would expect to find in the second generation of offspring.
9. How does probability apply to genetics?
10. Explain how to use a punnett square.
11. Explain codominance and incomplete dominance. Give an example of each.
12. Explain what multiple alleles are and give an example.
13. What are sex-linked traits? Explain how they work.