1.  What does a self- pollinating plant contain?

2.  anthers and a stigma

3.  What is the mathematical chance that an event will occur?

4.  probability

5.  What is the passing of traits from parents to offspring?

6.  heredity

7.  The inherited combinations of alleles is known as the offspring’s _____________.

8.  genotype

9.  _____________________ used plants to study the way traits are passed from parents to offspring.

10.  Mendel

11.  If two first-generation self- pollinating plants are crossed, Pp and Pp, what is the probability that offspring plants will show the dominant trait? Create Punnett Square

12.  3/4

13.  When pollen from one flower or plant can fertilize the eggs of the same flower or the eggs of another flower on the same plant, it is said to be ______________________.

14.  Self-pollinating

15.  The organism’s appearance is known as its ____________________.

16.  phenotype

17.  What did Mendel remove from a plant so that it could NOT self-pollinate?

18.  anthers

19.  The trait that always appears in the first- generation offspring is the ___________.

20.  Dominate trait

21.  In _____________________ the anthers of one plant are removed so that the plant cannot self- pollinate.

22.  Cross-pollination

23.  The trait that seems to recede in the background in first- generation offspring is the ___________________.

24.  Recessive trait

25.  True or False? Alleles can be either dominant or recessive?

26.  True

27.  Create a Punnett Square for the following:  R = red flower  r = white flower  A Homozygous white flower with a heterozygous red flower.  What is the ratio of red to white flowers?

29.  Smooth pods = 56  Bumpy pods = 82  What is the ratio of bumpy to smooth pods?

30.  82:56

31.  Each parent donates a set of instructions, known as _____________.

32.  genes

33.  A _______________________ plant will always produce offspring with the same trait as the parent.

34.  True-breeding