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| Why were pea plants well suited for use in Mendel's breeding experiments? |
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| They reproduced quickly, their fertilization was easy to control, they had easily observed characteristics, and each plant had both male and female sex organs. |
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| A kind of breeding in which the parents with a particular phenotype produce offspring only with the same phenotype. |
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| How did Mendel conduct his breeding experiments with pea plants? |
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| What is a monohybrid cross? |
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| A breeding experiment between P generation organisms that differ in one trait. |
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| What is a dihybrid cross? |
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| A dihybrid cross is a cross of two different genotypes (such as FfZz x ffzz) |
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