Chapter 14/15 - Patterns of Inheritance Flashcards
The passing of traits from parents to offspring through asexual or sexual reproduction
Heredity
Heredity by means of genes assumed
traits were from ‘fluid’ like blood
The first investigator to achieve and document successful experimental hybridizations, or the mating of unlike parents
Josef Klreuter
Who in 1760 cross-fertilized (or crossed, for short) different strains of tobacco and obtained fertile offspring?
Josef Klreuter
By cross-fertilizing (or crossed, for short) different strains of tobacco Josef Klreuter produced __________
hybrids
Who observed variations different from parent
plants
Josef Klreuter
Josef Klreuter:
Hybrid offspring crosses resulted in ___________________________________
even more differences compared to the grandparents and parent plants
Who crossed garden pea plants that had either yellow or green seeds (true-breeding)?
What did this result in?
T.A. Knight (1823)
Hybrids produced yellow or green seeds (segregating)
Offspring produced from self-fertilization, remaining uniform from one generation to the next.
true breeding
Some offspring exhibit one form of a trait (yellow seeds), and other offspring from the same mating exhibit a different form (green seeds).
segregating
Was a scientist, friar and abbot
Grew up on a farm
Math and physics background allowed him to approach genetics from a mathematical standpoint
Gregor (Johann) Mendel
Mendel studied __________________________
hybrid crosses in pea plants
What characteristics did Mendel find easily distinguishable in pea plants?
shape of seeds
color of seeds
color of pods
shape of pods
plant height
position of flowers
flower color
Mendel studied hybrid crosses in pea plants due to ___________________________________
Due to true-breeding, pure varieties of each trait were available
Mendel studied hybrid crosses in pea plants because pea plants are _______________________
small and grow fast
While studying pea plants Mendel discovered that male and female parts on the same flower of the plant, allow for ____________________________
self-fertilization (retention of trait)
Mendel usually conducted his experiments in three stages: Which were?
- Mendel allowed plants of a given variety to self-cross for multiple generations to assure himself that the traits he was studying were indeed true-breeding—that is, transmitted unchanged from generation to generation
- performed crosses between true-breeding varieties exhibiting alternative forms of traits. He also performed reciprocal crosses: using pollen from a whiteflowered plant to fertilize a purple-flowered plant, then using pollen from a purple-flowered plant to fertilize a white-flowered plant.
3.Finally, Mendel permitted the hybrid offspring produced by these crosses to self-fertilize for several generations, allowing him to observe the inheritance of alternative forms of a trait. Most important, he counted the numbers of offspring exhibiting each trait in each succeeding generation.
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concepts of inheritance in which traits of parents were carried by fluid and “blended” in offspring.
blending inheritance,
A cross that follows only two variations on a single trait, such as white- and purple-colored flowers. This deceptively simple kind of cross can lead to important conclusions about the nature of inheritance.
monohybrid cross
One trait, two variations
monohybrid cross
exhibits only one of two traits with no blending
F1 generation
When Mendel crossed white-flowered and purple-flowered plants, the hybrid offspring he observed did not have flowers of intermediate color, as the hypothesis of blending inheritance would predict. Instead, in every case the flower color of the offspring resembled that of one of their parents. These offspring are customarily referred to as the ______________________
first filial generation, or F1
No blending of traits
Always inherit same trait as one parent
first filial generation, or F1
In a cross of white-flowered and purple-flowered plants, the F1 offspring all had _________ flowers.
Mendel called these flowers the ___________ trait.
purple
purple; dominant