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Name:___________________
Directed Reading 5.1b: Mendel and His Peas
Select the letter of the best answer for each question.
1. What is heredity?
a. traits passing from offspring to parents
c. offspring with no genotypes
b. traits passing from parents to offspring
d. traits disappearing in offspring
2. In what country was Gregor Mendel born?
a. United States
c. Germany
b. Austria
d. Italy
3. Where did Gregor Mendel first learn about flowers and fruit trees?
a. in a lab
c. at a monastery
b. at a college
d. on a farm
4. Where did Gregor Mendel do his research?
a. in a lab
c. at a monastery
b. at a college
d. on a farm
UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY
Select the letter of the word that best matches each description.
___5. when a plant can fertilize itself
a. self-pollinating
___6. when all offspring have the same traits as the parent
b. cross-pollinating
___7. when one plant fertilizes another plant
c. true-breeding
___8. different forms of characteristics
d. characteristics
___9. used for Mendel’s experiments
e. traits
___10. features with different forms in a population
f. pea plants
___11. trait always seen in the first generation is the trait
g. dominant
___12. trait that reappears in the second generation is the trait
h. recessive
MENDEL’S SECOND EXPERIMENTS
Select the best answer to each question.
13. What happened in the second generation, when first-generation plants
self-pollinated?
a. The dominant trait disappeared.
b. The recessive trait disappeared.
c. The dominant trait showed up.
d. The recessive trait showed up.
14. What is a ratio?
a. the second generation of a plant
b. the relationship between two different things
c. the cross-pollination of a plant
d. the passing of traits from parents to offspring
15. When did Mendel get the recognition he deserved?
a. more than 30 years after his death
b. the day after he died
c. immediately after his experiments
d. 100 years after his death