Multiple Choice
In a cross between a pea plant with yellow seeds (dominant) and a pea plant with green seeds (recessive), all offspring in the F1 generation have yellow seeds. What does this result indicate about the genotype of the male parent?
2. Mendel's Laws of Inheritance
Mendel's Experiments and Laws
Multiple Choice
Which of the following breeding methods is most closely associated with Mendel's principles and is commonly used in the cattle industry to maintain desirable traits?
A
Cloning
B
Random mating
C
Selective breeding
D
Polyploidy induction
Verified step by step guidance1
Understand Mendel's principles, which focus on the inheritance of traits through controlled mating and predictable patterns of dominant and recessive alleles.
Review each breeding method: Cloning produces genetically identical individuals, random mating allows any individuals to mate without selection, selective breeding involves choosing parents with desirable traits to produce offspring, and polyploidy induction changes chromosome numbers.
Identify which method aligns with Mendel's approach of controlled crosses to maintain or enhance specific traits, which is selective breeding.
Recognize that in the cattle industry, selective breeding is commonly used to maintain and improve traits such as milk production, growth rate, and disease resistance by choosing parents with those traits.
Conclude that selective breeding is the method most closely associated with Mendel's principles and widely applied in cattle breeding.
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