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What is the definition of hereditary?
Hereditary refers to characteristics or traits that are passed down from one generation to the next through genes. These traits can include physical attributes, predispositions to certain diseases, or behavioral tendencies inherited from biological parents.
What did Mendel learn about genetics from studying peapods?
Mendel learned that traits are inherited in predictable patterns, now known as the principles of segregation and independent assortment. He also observed that some traits are dominant over others, while some traits can be hidden but still passed on to future generations.
What is heredity?
Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.
Gregor Mendel removed the male parts form the flowers of some plants in order to?
Gregor Mendel removed the male parts from flowers to prevent self-fertilization and control the pollination process. This allowed him to cross-pollinate plants with specific traits and study their inheritance patterns more accurately. By controlling the pollen, Mendel could selectively breed plants with desired characteristics to observe how traits were passed down to the next generation.
What is some innate traits?
Some innate traits include reflexes, instincts, and basic emotions such as fear or joy. These traits are present at birth and are not learned through experience.
What Evolutionary perspective put forth by some biologists maintains which position?
genes that produce behaviors and traits that lead to survival are passed on to the next generation
What was Mendel's results to his first experiment?
In Mendel's first experiment with pea plants, he crossed true-breeding plants with contrasting traits (e.g., tall and short). He found that the first generation (F1) offspring all displayed one of the traits, while the second generation (F2) showed a 3:1 ratio of the dominant to recessive trait. This led him to formulate his principles of inheritance, now known as Mendelian genetics.
What is the definition of hereditary?
Hereditary refers to characteristics or traits that are passed down from one generation to the next through genes. These traits can include physical attributes, predispositions to certain diseases, or behavioral tendencies inherited from biological parents.
What are the four basic ideas of Darwin's Theory of Evolution through natural selection?
Variability: Individuals in a population vary in their traits. Heritability: Traits can be passed down from parents to offspring. Selection: Some traits provide advantages in survival and reproduction. Time: Over time, individuals with advantageous traits are more likely to survive and pass on their traits to the next generation.
What are some genetic diseases that are passed down from generation to generation?
The term "genetic disease" refers to a disease that is inherited- or passed from one generation to the next.
What are the ratings and certificates for Star Trek The Next Generation - 1987?
Star Trek The Next Generation - 1987 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:M (some episodes) Australia:PG (some episodes) Canada:PG Iceland:LH Iceland:L (some episodes) Singapore:PG
The trait that disappeared in the f1 generation?
reappears in some plants in the F2 generation
What grade did degrassi the next generation start off on?
Some people started out in 8th grade and some in 9th
Why do some traits skip a generation?
I like puppies :) Traits 'skip' generations precisely because most traits are not accounted for by a single gene, but by their combination with other genes. There is no brown hair gene, or blue eye gene. These traits may be controlled by recessive genes, so they seem to skip a generation from grandparent to you. For example, if a trait is produced by a recessive gene, one of your parents may be a carrier but not possess the trait (because she inherited a dominant gene that overrode the recessive one). However, when her genes were recombined to produce the ovum from which you grew, and when that combined with your father's DNA, the trait may resurface.
How are autosomal traits related to Mendel's observations of heredity?
Gregor Mendel grew hundreds of pea plants. He was curious as to why some of the plants had different traits. Some plants were tall and others were short. Some plants produced green seeds while others produced yellow seeds.Mendel observed that most of the pea plants' traits were similar to its parents. In this observation, Mendel discovered heredity. Heredity is the passing of traits from parents to offspring.Mendel started his experiments with purebred plants, a plant that always produces offspring with the same form of a trait as a parent. Purebred pea plants self-pollinate (pollinate by themselves.) The pistil produces female egg cells. And the stamens produce pollen that contains male sex cells.Next, Mendel cross-pollinated the plants. He took the pollen from a short plant and applied it to a tall plant. He called this generation the parental generation or the P generation. The offspring of this generation was called the first filial generation. The offspring of this first filial generation were all tall. Mendel was curious as to why the tall plant gene over powered the short plant gene. It was because in pea plants tall genes are the dominant allele while short genes are the recessive allele.When the pea plants from the first filial generation were pollinated, three-fourths of the offspring (called the second filial generation) were tall and one-fourth was short. It showed Mendel that recessive alleles can reappear in the next generation of plants.Some Key AbbreviationsT = dominant allelet = recessive alleleTT = (purebred) a plant that inherited two dominant allelesTt = (hybrid) a plant that inherited one dominant allele and one recessive allelett = (purebred) a plant that inherited two recessive alleles
In the P generation a tall plant was crossed with a short plant No F1 plants were short Short plants reappeared in the F2 generation because?
A cross between members of the F1 generation (Tt x Tt), results in the genotypic ratio of 1TT:2Tt:1tt genotypes in the F2 generation. Because the tall allele is dominant, the phenotypic ratio would be 3 tall:1 short in the F2 generation.
Who proposed that acquired traits could be passed on to offspring?
This is a theory that states that some characteristics of an individual are acquired as opposed to inherited. For example, some frogs have mutations because of pollutants in their environment, whereas a person who has blue eyes probably has them because they inherited them from their parents.
