Mendel began his experiments by first crossing two homozygous ... alleles at a particular genetic locus. Mendel chose to cross a pea plant that was homozygous and dominant for round (RR), yellow ...

There is a lot of variation in the measurements of one experiment. A large sample size ... even though two characteristics were involved in one cross, these traits behaved as though they had ...

The patient monk carefully bred and cross-bred pea plants to see how a few specific ... But no one at the time understood the implications of Mendel's experiments. He soon left biology to focus ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants ... Mendel was able to cross-breed the plants by transferring pollen with a paintbrush.