What was Gregor Mendel's role in genetics?

Answer 1

Gregor Mendel developed the theory of inheritance and heredity. Mendel expirimented with the garden pea plant. First he pollinated short pea plants with tall pea plants. The next generation of pea plants resulting from the expiriment were all tall pea plants. He bred two of the pea plants from thhe new generation and they ended up having 3 tall pea plants and 1 short pea plant. There seemed to be two different traits. One trait seemed to appear in every generation, this was called the dominant trait. One trait seemed to disappear; this was known as the recessive trait. Mendel discovered this, though his discoveries weren't discovered until 1900.

Many people have helped pave the pathway of genetics. Charles Darwin discovered different characteristics of finches as he sail through the galapogas islands, Punnet created the punnet square(a chart used to predict traits among offspring) and Watson&Crick discovered the structure of DNA, the hereditary information found inside the nucleus. DNa is found inside your genes which, by the thousands are found on your 23 pairs of chromosomes.

Did you know proteins, found in ribosomes determine how tall you will grow, your hair color, and many other qualities about yourself?

Mendel was important as he showed that the inheritance of certain characteristics followed certain laws. In his experiments with pea plants he showed that:

1 in 4 had two dominant Alleles ('flavours' of a gene)

2 in 4 had a dominant and a recessive allele

1 in 4 had two recessive alleles

In short he proposed a mechanism for how inheritance worked