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Mo4-L1a: What is the Cross-Pollination Experiment?

1. Mendel removed the stamens from the purple What is the Conclusion of
flower. Mo4-L1b Mendel’s Experiment?

2. He transfered pollen from the stamens of the KEY CONCEPTS:
white flower to the pistil of the purple flower. 1. What did Mendel conclude about inherited traits?
2. How do dominant and recessive factors interact?
3. The pollinated of pistil of the purple flower grew
into a pea pod. Then, Mendel planted the peas.
Vocabulary A-Z

Key Concept Let us learn some vocabulary
What is the Cross-Pollination Experiment?
genetics
Why did Mendel perform cross-pollination
experiments? the study of how traits are passed from parents to
offspring.

dominant trait
a genetic factor that blocks another genetic factor.

Parents

SUMMARY
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What is the Cross-Pollination Experiment?

Genetics is the study of how traits are passed
from parents to offspring.

Mendel studied genetics by doing
cross-breeding experiments with pea plants.

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recessive trait
a genetic factor that is blocked by the presence of a
dominant factor
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