Gregor Mendel used a paintbrush to transfer pollen from the stamen of one pea plant to the pistil of another, enabling controlled cross-pollination. He also used self-pollination techniques when studying pea plant traits.
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Thomas Morgan is known for his work on fruit flies, specifically for his discovery of sex-linked inheritance. Gregor Mendel, on the other hand, is considered the father of modern genetics for his work with pea plants and his discovery of the laws of inheritance. Mendel's work laid the foundation for the field of genetics, while Morgan's work further expanded our understanding of genetic inheritance.
Gregor MendelMendel was born July 22, 1822 into a German-speaking family of Heinzendorf, Moravia, Austrian Empire (now Hynčice (part of Vražné), district of Nový Jičín, Czech Republic)." His family has never been highly recognized and there is very little information on them. They say his father was a gloomy fruit farmer, and his mother was cheerful.
Gregor Mendel (1822 to 1884) was an Austrian monk. He is often called the "father of genetics." Mendel and Walter Sutton's (an American scientist who lived from 1877 to 1916) work is related. Here is why: Mendel developed the basic laws of how traits are passed on to offspring. He did not know about genes, chromosomes, DNA, or meiosis. That's when Sutton found out that chromosomes contained genes, and had discovered Mendel's units of heredity! The laws stated below combine the work of Mendel and Sutton.Individual units called genes determine an organism's traits.A gene is a segment of DNA, located on the chromosomes, that carries hereditary instructions from parent to offspring.For each gene, an organism typically receives one allele from each parent.If an organism inherits different alleles for a trait, one allele may be dominant over the other.The alleles of a gene separate from each other when sex cells are formed during meiosis.
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Thomas Morgan is known for his work on fruit flies, specifically for his discovery of sex-linked inheritance. Gregor Mendel, on the other hand, is considered the father of modern genetics for his work with pea plants and his discovery of the laws of inheritance. Mendel's work laid the foundation for the field of genetics, while Morgan's work further expanded our understanding of genetic inheritance.
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Gregor MendelMendel was born July 22, 1822 into a German-speaking family of Heinzendorf, Moravia, Austrian Empire (now Hynčice (part of Vražné), district of Nový Jičín, Czech Republic)." His family has never been highly recognized and there is very little information on them. They say his father was a gloomy fruit farmer, and his mother was cheerful.
Gregor Mendel (1822 to 1884) was an Austrian monk. He is often called the "father of genetics." Mendel and Walter Sutton's (an American scientist who lived from 1877 to 1916) work is related. Here is why: Mendel developed the basic laws of how traits are passed on to offspring. He did not know about genes, chromosomes, DNA, or meiosis. That's when Sutton found out that chromosomes contained genes, and had discovered Mendel's units of heredity! The laws stated below combine the work of Mendel and Sutton.Individual units called genes determine an organism's traits.A gene is a segment of DNA, located on the chromosomes, that carries hereditary instructions from parent to offspring.For each gene, an organism typically receives one allele from each parent.If an organism inherits different alleles for a trait, one allele may be dominant over the other.The alleles of a gene separate from each other when sex cells are formed during meiosis.
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Gregor Mendel grew hundreds of pea plants. He was curious as to why some of the plants had different traits. Some plants were tall and others were short. Some plants produced green seeds while others produced yellow seeds.Mendel observed that most of the pea plants' traits were similar to its parents. In this observation, Mendel discovered heredity. Heredity is the passing of traits from parents to offspring.Mendel started his experiments with purebred plants, a plant that always produces offspring with the same form of a trait as a parent. Purebred pea plants self-pollinate (pollinate by themselves.) The pistil produces female egg cells. And the stamens produce pollen that contains male sex cells.Next, Mendel cross-pollinated the plants. He took the pollen from a short plant and applied it to a tall plant. He called this generation the parental generation or the P generation. The offspring of this generation was called the first filial generation. The offspring of this first filial generation were all tall. Mendel was curious as to why the tall plant gene over powered the short plant gene. It was because in pea plants tall genes are the dominant allele while short genes are the recessive allele.When the pea plants from the first filial generation were pollinated, three-fourths of the offspring (called the second filial generation) were tall and one-fourth was short. It showed Mendel that recessive alleles can reappear in the next generation of plants.Some Key AbbreviationsT = dominant allelet = recessive alleleTT = (purebred) a plant that inherited two dominant allelesTt = (hybrid) a plant that inherited one dominant allele and one recessive allelett = (purebred) a plant that inherited two recessive alleles
The realization that traits and certain diseases can be passed from parent to offspring stretches back at least to the ancient Greeks, well before any genome was actually decoded. People often said that people and other things showed that they were 'blended' and that they showed traits from mom and dad that were blended.That changed when a monk from Austria noted that when he bred pea plants that different out comes were seen. He spent many years keeping notes and records for the monastery.The first person to put heredity to the test was Gregor Mendel, who systematically tracked dominant and recessive traits in his famous pea plants. Mendel published his work on the statistics of genetic dominance in 1866 to little notice.But the painstaking work of cross-breeding pea plants wouldn't be unnoticed for long. In 1869, Swiss physician Johannes Friedrich Miescher became the first scientist to isolate nucleic acids, the active ingredient of DNA. Now the ideas that Mendel proposed made sense.
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Pea plants have both male and female sex cells in the same flower. The male sex cells are contained within the pollen grains produced by the anthers, while the female sex cells are housed in the ovules found in the ovary. These sex cells are necessary for fertilization to take place and for the production of seeds.