Mendel's Work

Vocab Heredity-passing of physical characteristics Trait-characteristic that an organism can pass to its offspring Genetics-the scientific study of heredity Purebred-offspring of man generations that have the same traits Gene-the set of info that controls a trait Alleles-the different forms of a gene Dominant allele-an allele whose traits always shows up in the organism when the allele is present Recessive allele-an allele masked when a dominant allele is present Hybrid-and organism that has 2 different alleles QuestionsKnow who the “Father of Genetics” is, what his experiments were about, and why his experiments were so important.Gregor MendelHeredityProcess of heredity and how they continue from generation to generationBe able to explain how traits can “skip a generation.”One is a recessive allele and when there is no dominant alleleKnow how alleles are related to genes.Alleles are forms of a gene while a gene consists of allelesBe able to represent alleles and genes using letters.Aa-HybridAA-Purebredaa-Purebred