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1. Who was Gregor Mendel?

2. What in Genetics is hybridization?
3. What is monohybridism?
4. Considering hybridization in a trait like the color of the flowers of a given plant species
(red dominant/ yellow recessive) conditioned by a pair of different alleles, what are the
phenotypical results of the first generation (F1) and the phenotypical results of the second
generation (F2, formed by crossing among F1 genotypes)? What are the phenotypical
proportions in F1 and F2?
5. Considering hybridization in a trait like the color of the flowers of a given plant species
(red/yellow) conditioned by a pair of different alleles in relation to complete dominance
(red dominant/ yellow recessive), why in the F1 generation is one of the colors missing?
6. Considering hybridization in a given trait like the color of the hair of a mammalian
species (white/black) conditioned by a pair of different alleles under complete dominance
(black dominant, B/ white recessive, w), how can the phenotypical proportion obtained in
the F2 generation be explained? What is this proportion?
7. What is meant by saying that in relation to a given trait conditioned by a gene with two
different alleles the gametes are always pure?
8. What is the Mendels first law?
9. Which is the type of gamete (for a given trait) produced by a dominant homozygous
individual? What is the genotypical proportion of these gametes? What about a recessive
homozygous individual?
10. Which is the type of gamete produced by a heterozygous individual? What is the
genotypic proportion of these gametes?
11. In the F2 generation of a hybridization for a given trait conditioned by a pair of alleles T
and t, according to Mendels first law what are the genotypes of each phenotypic form?
How many respectively are the genotypic and phenotypic forms?
12. Why can the crossing of an individual that manifests dominant phenotype with another
that manifests recessive phenotype (for the same trait) determine whether the dominant
individual is homozygous or heterozygous?

13. What is a genetic family tree?

14. What are the main conventional symbols and signs used in genetic family trees?
15. What are the three main steps for a good study of a genetic family tree?
16. What is Mendels second law?
17. What is the condition for Mendels second law to be valid?
18. According to Mendels second law, in the crossing between homozygous individuals
concerning two pairs of unlinked alleles, AABB x aaBB, what are the genotypic and
phenotypic proportions in F1 and F2?
19. Considering independent segregation of all factors, how many types of gametes does a
VvXXWwYyzz individual produce? What is the formula to determinate such number?
20. How is it possible to obtain the probability of emergence of a given genotype formed of

more than one pair of different alleles with independent segregation from the knowledge
of the parental genotypes?