Probability of Inheritance Answers

What is one of the reasons why Gregor Mendel chose to study pea plants?

Mendel crossed two plants that were heterozygous for the trait of flower color. Which genotypes could he have used to represent the cross?

In pea plants, tallness (T) is dominant to shortness (t). What are the predicted percentages of the genotypes of the offspring if a homozygous short plant is crossed with a heterozygous tall plant?

There are two different alleles for flower color, P and p. The image shows a purple sweet pea that is labeled with its two alleles for petal color.Which is the genotype of the sweet pea?

Purple flowers are dominant over white flowers. A heterozygous purple flower is crossed with another heterozygous purple flower. What will the ratio of purple to white be?

Which includes the physical characteristics of an organism?

Gregor Mendel crossed homozygous tall plants (TT) with homozygous short plants (tt). All the resulting offspring were tall. From these results, what conclusion did Mendel draw?

The offspring of a particular cross are 100 percent heterozygous for the trait of plant height. What were the most likely genotypes of the parents?

The Punnett square predicts the ratio of genotypes in the offspring, based on the genotypes of the parents. The Punnett square below examines the chance of offspring having freckles, which is a dominant trait.Based on the Punnett square, what is the probability that the offspring will have freckles?

Why did Gregor Mendel choose to use purebred plants in his experiments?