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Genetic 342 A&B

Kenneth G Wilson

Professory of Botany

mendel garden

How does this diagram represent Gregor Mendels experimental work with peas?

What precisely did Mendel do?

How do you make reciprocal crosses?

Why do you make reciprocal crosses?

Analysis of round vs wrinkled

  Back Cross = Take the F1 and cross it with either parent. What would you expect if you back crossed to the dominant or yellow parent.
 

Test Cross = Take the F1 hybrid or any organism suspected of being a hybrid and cross it to an organism that is homozygous recessive for the trait or traits involved.

Note: This is similar to a back cross to the recessive parent.

Do Mendel's Laws work in corn [Zea mays]?

Review of Words

oliver

This is our friend Oliver the parrotlet,

Oliver is a true parrot,

the smallest in the world.