Learn more about Mendel and his work.

Visit the following links. Then take the quiz about Mendel's work.

Mendel
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/klmno/mendel_gregor.html
http://www.mendelweb.org/MWtime.html

Think about: What contemporary discoveries influenced Mendel's work on genetics?

Experiments in Plant Hybridization (1865)
http://www.esp.org/foundations/genetics/classical/gm-65.pdf

Think about: What does Mendel state as the goal of his experiments?

Mendel's Genetics
http://anthro.palomar.edu/mendel/mendel_1.htm

Think about: What was Mendel's most crucial observation about pea plants?

1			Mendel studied 7 different characteristics of pea plants.
			A)	True
			B)	False
2			Modern geneticists also work with pea plants (Pisum sativum) because of their short generations.
			A)	True
			B)	False
3			The prevailing genetic theory during Mendel's time was that traits blend together from generation to generation.
			A)	True
			B)	False
4			What Mendel called "units" of inheritance were what scientists now call "genes."
			A)	True
			B)	False
5			Mendel recognized that an individual inherits two units of inheritance for each trait from each parent.
			A)	True
			B)	False
6			Mendel began with plants that were hybrids for each trait he studied.
			A)	True
			B)	False
7			All the traits Mendel studied exhibited a pattern of pure dominant/recessive inheritance.
			A)	True
			B)	False
8			The principle of segregation states that different pairs of alleles are inherited independently of one another.
			A)	True
			B)	False
9			Mendel carried out his experiments in secret, because scientific research was forbidden in the abbey where he lived.
			A)	True
			B)	False
10			Andreas Baumgartner's contribution to Mendel's intellectual development was the idea that nature should be studied through controlled experiments rather than merely through observation.
			A)	True
			B)	False