Directions: True or false. If false, change the capitilized word to make the sentence true.
1.) An organism's heredity is the SET OF CHARACTERISTICS it receives from its parents.
2.) When Mendel crossed pea plants that showed one form of a trait with pea plants that showed the other form, the offspring was called a HYBRID.
3.) The genes for seed shape and seed color in a pea plant DO NOT influence each other's inheritance.
4.) Mendel's work went almost unnoticed until around the early 1960's (1960's the the word that can be changed).
5.) The unit that Mendel called a Merkmal is called a TRAIT today.
2006-11-16 10:00:39 · 2 answers · asked by Hank Ferris 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
1. true
2. true
3.true, they assort independently.
4. false, more like the early1900's
5.false it is called a gene today and Mendel never called it a Merkmal, unless that is German for " factor ", which is what Mendel called the unit of heredity.
2006-11-16 10:39:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All true except 4, which is 1860's.
2006-11-16 10:10:40 · answer #2 · answered by sonyack 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋