Thus, through their work with pea plants, Bateson, Saunders, and Punnett discovered an apparent exception to one of Mendel's foundational proposals: the principle of independent assortment.

After tracking physical characteristics of the common pea plant through multiple generations, Gregor Mendel realized that inheritance follows specific patterns. Mendel’s discovery led to what we ...

Complete this Punnett square to show the allele combinations ... hair offspring to curly hair offspring. Flower colour in pea plants is inherited genetically. The white allele is recessive ...

Complete this Punnett square to show the possible allele combinations of the offspring produced when two pea plants are bred. In this Punnett square the top row shows the alleles of parent 1 and ...