Bio07_TR__U04_CH11.QXD

Gregor Mendel did experiments with pea plants to study inheritance. Pea plants are usually self-pollinating, meaning that sperm cells fertilize egg cells in the same flower. The pea plants he studied were true-breeding. True-breeding . plants produce offspring identical to themselves. Mendel wanted seeds that inherited traits from two different parent plants. He crossed two plants with different forms … ................
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