Monohybrid Crosses
A monohybrid cross is a genetic cross between 2 individuals that differ in a single characteristic. Mendel determined some basic principles of inheritance by performing monohybrid crosses between true-breeding parental pea plants that differed in a single characteristic. This scrollable interactive explores how Gregor Mendel used monohybrid crosses to determine the basic principles of inheritance.
Topics
- 1:2:1
- 3:1
- allele
- basic principles of inheritance
- biological parent
- characteristic
- complete dominance
- completely dominant
- concept of dominance
- diploid
- dominance
- dominant allele
- dominant trait
- environment
- F1
- F1 generation
- F2
- F2 generation
- fertilization
- first filial (F1) generation
- flower color
- flower position
- garden pea
- gamete
- gamete formation
- generation
- gene
- genetic cross
- genetic makeup
- gene R
- genotype
- genotypic ratio
- Gregor Mendel
- grid
- heterozygous
- homozygous
- hybrid
- law of segregation
- Mendel
- monohybrid cross
- observable traits
- offspring
- organism
- P
- P generation
- parent
- parental (P) generation
- pea
- pea plant
- Pisum sativum
- phenotype
- phenotypic ratio
- pod color
- pod shape
- principles of inheritance
- progeny
- Punnett square
- RR
- Rr
- rr
- r allele
- R allele
- recessive allele
- recessive trait
- round pea seeds
- round phenotype
- round seeds
- second filial (F2) generation
- seed color
- seed shape
- self-fertilization
- single characteristic
- stem length
- trait
- true-breeding
- wrinkled pea seeds
- wrinkled phenotype
- wrinkled seeds