Mendel's Monohybrid cross

MENDEL’S MONOHYBRID CROSS

JAYASREE P.S. M.Sc (zoo), M.Sc (psy) NET, M.Ed., M.Phil NETASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN Dr. MGR INSTITUTE OF SPECIAL

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

MONOHYBRID CROSS

GREGOR JOHANN MENDEL (1822-1884)

GREGOR JOHANN MENDEL (1822-1884)

• Mendel was educated in a monastery and went on to study science and mathematics at the university of Vienna.

• Mendel blended his knowledge of science and mathematics and was the first one to keep count of individuals exhibiting a particular trait in each generation. This helped him to arrive at the laws of inheritance.


• Mendel selected tall and dwarf garden pea plants, Pisum sativum for the experiments.

DOMINANT AND RECESSIVE TRAITS


• He observed their growth for nearly two years and found that tall plants always produce tall plants and dwarf plants produce dwarf plants – generation after generation on self-pollination and under natural conditions.


He termed those tall and dwarf plants as wild types or pure breeding varieties.


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MONOHYBRID CROSS• He crossed a tall plant with a dwarf plant and observed

how the traits are transmitted the progeny and calculated the percentage of tallness and dwarfness in subsequent generations.

• When a pure breeding tall plant (TT) was crossed with a pure breeding dwarf plant (tt), all plants were tall in the first filial generation (F1).

• When such an F1 tall plant was allowed to self-pollination, both the tall and dwarf plants were appered in the second generation F2.

DIAGRAMMATIC REPRESENTATION OF MONOHYBRID CROSS

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The first experiment of Mendel considering the

inheritance of a single trait (Height of the

plant-Tall/Dwarf) is called monohybrid cross

ACTIVITYObserve the plants in your locality which

show different characters for the following traits. Count them and record your findings. Examples:

COCONUT TALL DWARF

Bean Violet Flower White flower

Sugarcane White Stem Purple Stem

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Mendel's Monohybrid cross