GCSE Biology – Mendel’s work

Last updated: 03/06/2020
CCEA GCSE Science – Combined science higher Genome, chromosomes, DNA and genetics GCSE Biology – Mendel’s work

Learning Objectives

-I can describe the development of understanding of genetics from Gregor Mendel on wards

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  1. What was the nucleus discovered to contain?

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  2. What can be passed on through generations?

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  3. Who was Gregor Mendel?

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  4. In what century did Gregor Mendel conduct his research?

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  5. Whose work did Gregor Mendel build his work from?

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  6. What did Charles Darwin do?

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  7. What did Mendel study?

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  8. What did Mendel use in his experiments?

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  9. Where did Mendel state inheritance is determined from?

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  10. What did Mendel discover when he bred red-flowered plants with white-flowered plants?

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  11. What did Mendel discover when he bred red-flowered plants with red-flowered plants?

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  12. In terms of alleles, write a conclusion referring to the red and white flowered plants.

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  13. In terms of alleles, write a conclusion referring to the red and white flowered plants.

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  14. What is the definition of a dominant allele?

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  15. What is the definition of a recessive allele?

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  16. How are dominant alleles represented?

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  17. How are recessive alleles represented?

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  18. What did Mendel draw up after his experiment?

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  19. Why was Mendel’s work not accepted until after his death?

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  20. Why was Mendel’s work not accepted until after his death?

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  21. Why was Mendel’s work not accepted until after his death?

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  22. What did James Watson do?

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  23. What did Frank Crick do?

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  24. What did Rosalind Franklin do?

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  25. What did Maurice Wilkins do?

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