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24 January, 11:38

Mendel's observations of pea plants contributed to the study of modern genetics. use these terms gene, genotype, dominant, recessive, phenotype, allele, trait, in your explanation?

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  1. 24 January, 11:44
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    The Punnett square was method developed by Gregor Mendel using peas, to predict the probability of inheriting a trait from the parent’s gene. A single trait could be tested using a four by four square, and adding trait is adding one more the exponential value.

    He first used a pure strain, which contained only the specific gene he wanted. A gene is a basic unit of heredity. In a pure breed the genotype is considered to be homozygous. For example in a round and wrinkle peas breed. The genotype would RR for round and rr for wrinkled. A capital letter is used when the trait is dominant, while small letters for recessive.

    The parent's gene will be separated in to Alleles and used to create a punnett square. Like for example

    r r

    R Rr Rr

    R Rr Rr

    The ones in the x-axis is the recessive wrinkled trait, while the on y-axis is the dominant round trait. This gives off a heterozygous genotype of Rr, meaning all the offspring will only show the dominant trait, having a round shape. It can be said in Phenotypic ratio as 4:0 because phenotype is the set of observable characteristics of a specific trait. Where in this case, one could clearly see that all offspring will show the dominant strain.
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