Lab 8
What percentage of offspring do you predict will be purple?
What percentage of offspring do you predict will be yellow?
What percentage of offspring do you predict will be purple and smooth?
What percentage of offspring do you predict will be purple and wrinkled?
What percentage of offspring do you predict will be yellow and smooth?
What percentage of offspring do you predict will be yellow and wrinkled?
Describe Mendel’s First Law.
Describe Mendel’s Second Law.
Why is corn a useful model genetic system?
What is a monohybrid?
What percentage of the kernels you observed were purple?
Do you believe Corn #1 is the result of a cross between Pp and Pp? Why or why not?
What is a dihybrid?
What phenotype would a Ppss kernel have?
What phenotype would a ppSs kernel have?
In Experiment 2, what percentage of the kernels you observed were yellow and wrinkled? What percentage of the kernels you observed were purple and smooth? What percentage of the kernels you observed were yellow and smooth?
Do you believe Corn #2 is the result of a cross between PpSs and PpSs? Why or why not?
What types of genetic information can be determined from a Punnett square? What types of genetic information cannot be determined from a Punnett square?
