Determining What You Already Know About Mendelian Genetics
Experience of artificial fertilization, such as is effected with ornamental plants in order to obtain new variations in color, has led to the experiments which will here be discussed.
- Gregor Mendel, "Experiments in Plant Hybridization"
Preparing for the Lesson
In this lesson, we will be learning about Gregor Mendel's laws of heredity. The organism on which Mendel experimented was Pisum sativum
, the pea plant. To better understand his experiments, you need to understand how flowering plants reproduce, meiosis, and the chromosomal basis of heredity. Below are some activities to check your background knowledge. If you do well, you may continue with the lesson. If one or two of the activities are not easy for you, you may want to explore the background links provided. Good luck!
Flowers
Flowers are the reproductive structures of angiosperms, the largest and most successful of the plant groups. The activities below review flower plant anatomy and physiology.
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Would you like some more background on flowering plant reproduction? Try these links!
Flowers (see Botany Online -- The Internet Hypertextbook -- available on page 7 of the Mentor Guidelines Web site)
