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why did mendal study pea plants?
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to show there was 3 to 1 ragio of tall plants to short. from the second generation
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what was mendals ragio?
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3 to 1
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explain how the inheritance of traits is controlled in an organism?
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the female parent contributes one factor, and the male parent contributes the other factor
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can a short pea plant ever be a hybrid? explain
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yes, if it inherited two reseve alleles for short stems
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why is there a 1 in 2 probibility that a tossed coin will land heads up?
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because there are two sides
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if a pea plant's genotype is Tt, what is its phenotype?
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Tall
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how is probiblity related to genetics?
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mendal was the first scientist to recognize that the principles of probiblity can be used to predict the resultes of genetic crosses
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how are Punnet squares useful to genetics
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they used punnet square to show all of the possible outcomes of a genetic cross and to determine aprobability to a particular outcomes
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a white cow is crossed with a red bull. the cow is nether white nor red, but roan. explain how this happens.
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the genes on a chromosome contral an organism's traits
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