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Pre-Lab Questions – Mendelian Genetics

Using resources available to you answer the following:

1. List three contributions of Gregor J. Mendel to the understanding of genetics.

 

2. What was Mendel's primary "experimental" organism?

 

3. What is self pollination? Why was this important to Mendel?

 

4. What was the title of Mendel's published work (English and German titles), and the journal and date in which it was published.

  

5. List three contribution of Thomas Hunt Morgan to the understanding of genetics.

 

6. Define the following terms, as applied to the study of genetics:

• homozygous

 

• heterozygous

 

• dominant

 

• recessive

 

• monohybrid

 

• dihybrid

 

• F1 and F2

 

• test cross

 

• phenotype

 

• genotype

 

• phenotypic ratio

 

• genotypic ratio

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