Question

Explain the process of cross-pollination. What was the importance of cross-pollination? What was Mendel's conclusion about how different forms of a trait were determined? What was Mendel's observation about blended traits?

Answer 1

cross pollination is defined as the transfer of pollen from the flower of one plant to the flower of a plant having a different genetic constitution. It is important because it allows for diversity in the species.

Step-by-step explanation:

Traits are determined by genes.Two alleles for a given gene in a diploid organism are expressed and interact to produce physical characteristics. The observable traits expressed by an organism are referred to as its phenotype.The part of human cells that's responsible for the way various traits are inherited is called DNA.Mendel showed that offspring traits are determined by individual, separate alleles inherited from each parent.Mendel observed that, when peas with more than one trait were crossed, the progeny did not always match the parents. This is because different traits are inherited independently – this is the principle of independent assortment.

Mendel concluded that blending should not be the expected outcome of parental trait combinations. Mendel instead hypothesized that each parent contributes some particulate matter to the offspring.Incomplete dominance is a form of intermediate inheritance in which one allele for a specific trait is not completely expressed over its paired allele..the third phenotype is the blend of the two.