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because it helped Mendel discover which plants would be crossed to produce offspring.

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because Mendel did not want mixed results.

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Q: Why was it important to Mendels work that peas were true breeding?
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Why were true-breeding pea Plant important for Mendels experiment?

True breeding plants were homozygous for all the characters expressed, hence inheritance of characters was better understood with the help of these plants.


Why was it important to Mendel's work that peas were true-breeding?

because it helped Mendel discover which plants would be crossed to produce offspring.


Which letters can be used to model mendels cross of true-breeding tall plants with true breeding short plants in a punnett square?

True breeding tall plants would be TT and true breeding short plants would be tt, so TT x tt would illustrate the crossbreeding.


Which letter can be used to model Mendels cross of true-breeding tall plants with true -breeding short plants in a Punnett square?

True breeding tall plants would be TT and true breeding short plants would be tt, so TT x tt would illustrate the crossbreeding.


Which letters can be used to model mendels cross of true breeding tall plants with true breeding short plants in punnett square?

True breeding tall plants would be TT and true breeding short plants would be tt, so TT x tt would illustrate the crossbreeding.


Which letter can be used to model Mendels cross of true breeding tall plants with true breeding short plants in a Punnett square?

True breeding tall plants would be TT and true breeding short plants would be tt, so TT x tt would illustrate the crossbreeding.


What letters can be used to model Mendels cross of true-breeding tall plants what true-breeding short plants in a Punnett square?

TT for the homozygous tall parent, tt for the homozygous short parent and Tt for the heterozygous offspring.


What happened in Mendels experiments when a pea plant received two different alleles for the same traits?

When Mendel crossed a true-breeding short plant with a true-breeding tall plant, all the offspring were tall. Which term describes the gene for tallness?


If you made a Punnett square showing Gregor Mendels cross between true breeding short plsntd the square would show that the offspring had what?

the genotype of one of the parents


Is it true that Mendels principles apply not to just to pea plants but to other organism as well?

Yes, it is true. Mendels principles apply to anything and everythin that is living.


What Mendel's first experiment crossed true-breeding plants with different versions of the hereditary factor for a trait. best describes Mendel's results?

Tt and TT were the genotypes of the true breeding plants that Mendel used in his two factor cross.


Which characteristic was true of mendels generation plants?

they were all hybrids