Mendel explored inheritance of traits by performing a –

. He first relied on a parental P generation of plants that were –
and always produced flowers with the same color –
as their parents. He allowed the resulting F1 generation to –
to produce an F2 generation to track the inheritance of traits.
isolatehybridsgenotypeself-fertilizetrue-breedinggenetic crossphenotype

Mendel explored inheritance of traits by performing a genetic cross. He first relied on a parental P generation of plants that were true-breeding and always produced flowers with the same color phenotype as their parents. He allowed the resulting F1 generation to self-fertilize to produce an F2 generation to track the inheritance of traits.