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Pea plants are autogamous by nature and can produce seeds by self-pollination. For hybridization Mendel emasculated the mother plant flower and pollinated it with father plant's anthers at the time of viable pollen grain and receptive stigma. the resulting seeds were hybrid having genetic information from both parents.
Plants raised from hybrid seeds on selfing formed seeds of F2 generation. The seeds of F2 generation on germination showed segregation of parental characters.
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∙ 12y agoMendel's cross-breeding of common pea Mendels cross breeding of common pea plants showed certain traits show up in offspring without blending parent characteristics.
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What organism was used for Mendel's first cross?
Mendel used pea pod plants for his early experiments. See http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/klmno/mendel_gregor.html
What kind of plants did Gregor Johann Mendel work with and why?
Gregor Mendel used pea plants in his experiments to study heredity
Why mendel selected pea plant to study?
maybe he was lucky and he did so without knowing the reason but today we know the pea plant is 2n=14. so it has 7 pairs of chromosomes. if mendel had studied 8 traits for example, then at least 2 of them would've been on the same chromosome and he couldn't have used its mathematical laws of independence because then at least 2 chromosomes were linked.
What was mendels experiment?
pea plants
What were the results of Mendel's first experiment?
i believe his results were that after cross pollinating to non-purebred pea plants, the offspring were all tall like the female,and when he crossed the other two, he received three tall pea plants and one short
What step did Mendel take to be sure that his pea plants cross -pollinated?
he used plants that were NOT true breeding!
What did Mendel do to make sure the plants in his experiments cross pollinated and did not self pollinate?
he used plants that were NOT true breeding!
A feature that has different forms in a population?
Polymorphism is a term used to describe a genetic feature that has multiple forms or alleles within a population. This variation allows individuals within the population to exhibit different phenotypes for that particular trait. Polymorphism is important for evolution as it can provide diversity and adaptability to changing environments.
How did Mendel make sure that plants cross pollinated?
He pollinated the plants himself and in the process he mixed the pollen from pea plants that had different colored to see what the end result would be (I got this all from a textbook I swear)
How did mendel make sure that some plants cross-pollinated?
He pollinated the plants himself and in the process he mixed the pollen from pea plants that had different colored to see what the end result would be (I got this all from a textbook I swear)
What term did Mendel use to describe heterozygous pea plants?
The terms Mendel used to describe the heterozygous pea plant was the hybrid term....i hope that helped
What did Gregor Mendel do study different characteristics in his genetics experiments?
Gregor Mendel took two true-breeding plants with contrasting traits and cross-pollinated them, producing offspring with genes for both characteristics. He used selective breeding.
Why did Mendel continue some of his experiments to the F2 or F3 generation?
Gregor Mendel did his experiments because he was looking to see how genetics and heredity worked. He used pea plants because they bred true. He found that the taller plants all produced tall plants if they were self pollinated. If short plants were used and were cross pollinated, they would all be short.
Why did Mendel prevent his plants from self-pollinating?
To control the crossing of the traits.Because his experiments were aimed at what happened when you cross pollinated the plants with different characteristics. Self-pollination would have meant that his experiments would not have worked.
What did gregor Mendel do to study different characteristics in his genetics experiment?
He cross-pollinated plants
What is Mendel's discovery?
to cross the genetics of plants...
What results did mendel get when he allowed the first- generation plants to self- pollinate?
Gregor Mendel developed the model of heredity that now bears his name by experiments on various charactersitics of pea plants: height (tall vs. Short); seed color (yellow vs. Green); seat coat (smooth vs. wrinkled), etc. The following explanation uses the tall/short trait. The other traits Mendel studied can be substituted for tall and short.Mendel started out with plants that "bred true". That is, when tall plants were self-pollinated (or cross-pollinated with others like them), plants in following generations were all tall; when the short plants were self-pollinated (or cross- pollinated with others like them) the plants in following generations were all short.Mendel found that if true breeding Tall [T] plants are crossed (bred) with true breeding short [t] plants, all the next generation of plants, called F1, are all tall.Next, he showed that self-pollinated F1 plants (or cross- pollinated with other F1 plants) produce an F2 generation with 3/4 of the plants tall and 1/4 short.A. 1/4 of the F2 generation are short plants, which produce only short plants in the F3 generation, if they are self- pollinated (or crossed with other short F2 plants;) these F2 plants breed true.B, 1/4 of the F2 generation (1/3 of the tall plants) are tall plants that produce only tall plants in the F3 generation, if they are self-pollinated; these tall F2 plants breed true.C. 1/2 of the F2 generation (2/3 of the tall plants) are tall plants that produce 1/4 short plants and 3/4 tall plants in the next [F3] generation, if they are self-pollinated. This is the same proportion of tall to short that F1 plants produce.
