Name_________________________ Mendel Webquest DO NOW: In your own words, describe Gregor Mendel.

Instructions: Using the websites provided or any other website, please answer the questions below. Whatever you do not finish will be for homework. 1. What was Mendels educational background? Mendel to attend the University of Vienna to get a teaching diploma. But Mendel failed

2. What was Mendels occupation? He was an Austrian monk and biologist whose work on heredity became the basis of the modern theory of genetics.

3. List some events/people etc. that led him to his experiments. Frank Unger gave Mendel the idea to stay on at the monastery and use his time to carry out practical experiments in biology. 4. What was some of the work of others that Mendel used as background information for his experiments? Frank Unger whose practical view of inheritance, free from spiritual influences, seemed to reflect his own farming background.

5. When did Mendel do his experiments? Between 1856 and 1863

6. Pick one of Mendels experiments and outline the following: a. Question to be answeredMendel began his investigation into variation, heredity and evolution in plants. He chose to study in detail the common garden pea, Pisum, which he grew in the monastery garden.

b. Outline the procedure for his experiment. Mendel worked on this for several years, carefully self-pollinating and wrapping each individual plant to prevent accidental pollination by insects. He collected the seeds produced by the plants and studied the offspring of these seeds observing that some plants bred true and others not.

c. Summarize the data he recorded. He recorded the shape of the seed, colour of seed, tall stemmed and short stemmed and tall plants and short plants.

d. What were his conclusions? Mendel discovered that by crossing tall and short parent plants he got hybrid offspring that resembled the tall parent rather than being a medium height blend.

e. Where/when/how did he report his results? In 1866 Mendel published his work on heredity in the Journal of the Brno Natural History Society. 7. Why was Mendels work not immediately recognized? The complex and detailed work he had produced was not understood even by influential people in his field such as Karl Nageli.

8. Define these terms: a. Hybrid- A thing made by combining two different elements; a mixture. b. Probability- The extent to which something is probable. c. Proportion- A part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole. d. Segregation- The separation of paired alleles or homologous chromosomes, especially during meiosis, so that the members of each pair appear in different gametes. e. True (or pure) breeders- A kind of breeding in which the parents with a particular phenotype produce offspring only with the same phenotype. f. Dominant- for a trait that shows up in an offspring g. Recessive- for a trait masked by a dominant gene.

9. Explain what is meant by the term p generation, F1 generation, and F2 generation. P generation- The first set of parents crossed in which their genotype is the basis for predicting the genotype of their offspring, which in turn, may be crossed (filial generation). F1 generation- The first filial generation, which is comprised of offspring(s) resulting from a cross between strains of distinct genotypes. F2 generation- The second filial generation, which is comprised of offspring(s) resulting from a cross of the members of F1 generation.

10. Mendel mated two tall pea plants. This cross produced about 75 tall pea plants and 25 short pea plants. A tall and short plant were then crossed and produced 50 tall pea plants and 50 short pea plants. Using the terms p generation, F1 generation, and F2 generation match the terms with the underlined words in this scenario.

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Using the following websites-or others that you find-to answer the following questions: http://www.mendel-museum.org/eng/1online/ http://www.mendelweb.org/MWtoc.html http://www.biopoint.com/engaging/MENDEL/MENDEL.HTM http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/projects/anthro201/bio/ http://www.mendel-museum.org/eng/1online/ http://anthro.palomar.edu/mendel/mendel_1.htm http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/projects/anthro201/disc/

http://www.mendel-museum.org/eng/1online/experiment.htm http://biologica.concord.org/webtest1/web_labs_mendels_peas.htm