Chapter 14A Homework Questions

1. What is the difference between the blending and the particulate hypotheses of inheritance?

2. What are the two basic laws of Mendelian genetics?

3. Who were the two scientists that influenced Mendel’s thinking?

4. What is the difference between a genotype and a phenotype?

5. What were the seven characters used by Mendel to study inheritance in pea plants?

6. What is an allele?

7. What is a Punnett square.

8. What is the difference between a heterozygous individual and a homozygous individual?

9. What is the difference between a monohybrid and a dihybrid cross?