He didn't learn about it, he discovered it. He grew lots and lots of pea plants and found that the inheritance of traits had numeric proportions.
That inheritance of traits is particulate. That is the male and the female both contribute discrete genetic information that is not blended in the progeny of sexual reproduction. He called these discrete units " factors " and now we call them genes.Genetics.
Gregor Mendel took two different colored pea plants: one had traits for white plants and the other had traits for a red plant. When Mendel cross bred the two plants, a plant with traits for a pink plant grew. This is how Mendel contributed to the understanding of inherited traits.
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He experimented with pea plants.
He experimented with pea plants.
Fill in the blanks to complete the passage. The Austrian monk and scientist Gregor studied the traits of pea plants. He could see that pea plant traits were passed from parents to offspring in a process called .
He chose peas because they grow easily and quickly, and it's easy to see and recognize their different traits.
discontinuous traits in pea plants
He studied dominant and recessive genes. He studied pea plants and the traits that they obtained from previous generations.
Mendel learned from the study of peapods the basis for recessive and dominant gene composition as well as the cell of a plant can contain two different traits but not both traits.
Gregor Mendell was born a poor man. He grew up in a sanctuary and went to an academy to learn. Once he graduated he returned home and became an abbot or bishop. He experimented on genetics with pea plants because they had so many physical traits. His discovery was ignored for about 48 years. He died having no children or wives.
If studying genetics, rats are a popular choice because they breed quickly, having a gestation period lasting under a month. Also, they live longer than mice do, up to four or six years if in good health. They also have a variety of coat, fur, and eye colors that would make basic study of genetics easy by studying offsprings' genes in relation to their parents. I was under the impression that Mendel mainly studied pea plants, though. But that would be my guess why; the reasons for his studying peas are similar to why one would study rats. It's practical.