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 ...

Through his breeding experiments with pea plants, Mendel established three ... two flies are shown in Figure 4.) The breeding, or cross, performed in this experiment can be denoted as BB × ...

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.

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 ...