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5.1 Mendel’s Work
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Ch.5 – What were the results of Mendel’s experiments?
Heredity: passing of physical characteristics from parents to offspring
Trait: Each different form of a characteristic, such as stem height or seed color
Genetics: the scientific study of heredity
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Mendel’s experiments
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Mendel’s experiments
Flower’s petals surround the pistil and the stamens. The pistil produces female sex cells (eggs). The stamens produce pollen, which contains male sex cells (sperm).
A new organism begins to form when egg and sperm join in the process called fertilization.
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Crossing Pea Plants
Mendel crossed two pea plants (cross-pollination): he removed pollen from a flower on one plant, then brushed the pollen onto a flower on a second plant.
Purebred organism is the offspring of many generations that have the same trait – EX. Purebred short pea plants always come from short parent plants.
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The F1 Offspring
Parent generation : P generation Offspring : Filial (child) generation – F1 and
F2 and so on. In all of Mendel’s crosses, only one form of
the trait appeared in the F1 generation. However, in the F2 generation, the “lost” form of the trait always reappeared in about ¼ of the plants.
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F1 and F2 generation
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Dominant and Recessive Alleles
Mendel concluded that individual factors, or set of genetic “information” must control the inheritance of traits in the peas.
The factors that control each trait exist in pairs. The female parent contributes one factor, while the male parent contributes the other factor.
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Genes and Alleles
Gene: factors that control a trait. Alleles: different forms of a gene. – EX. The
gene that controls stem height in peas has one allele for tall stems and one allele for short stems.
An organism’s traits are determined by the alleles it inherits from its parents. Some alleles are dominant, while others are recessive.
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Alleles
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Dominant allele’s trait always shows up and recessive allele is hidden whenever dominant allele is present.
Only pea plants that inherit two recessive alleles for short stems will be short.
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Alleles in Mendel’s Crosses
Examples of Alleles
P - TT and tt
F1 – Tt and Tt
F2 – TT, Tt, Tt, and tt
Tall allele - Capital T,
Short allele – lowercase t
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Significance of Mendel’s Contribution
Mendel’s work changed scientist’s ideas about heredity.
Before Mendel, people thought you can blend genetic information to produce new traits (ex. Red + white = Pink), but now we know that traits are determined by individual, separate alleles inherited from each parent.
If a trait is from a recessive allele, the trait can seem to disappear in the offspring.