Gregor Mendel

Mendel studied sweet peas. He studied the inheriance of certain traits in pea plants. His studies of the passing of certain traits formed the basis for our understanding of dominant and recessive genes in plants and animals.

The theories of heredity attributed to Gregor Mendel, based on his work with pea plants, are well known to students of biology. But his work was so brilliant and unprecedented at the time it appeared that it took thirty-four years for the rest of the scientific community to catch up to it. The short monograph, Experiments with Plant Hybrids, in which Mendel described how traits were inherited, has become one of the most enduring and influential publications in the history of science. Mendel, the first person to trace the characteristics of successive generations of a living thing, was not a world-renowned scientist of his day. Rather, he was an Augustinian monk who taught natural science to high school students. He was the second child of Anton and Rosine Mendel, farmers in Brunn, Moravia. Mendel's brilliant performance at school as a youngster encouraged his family to support his pursuit of a higher education, but their resources were limited, so Mendel entered an Augustinian monastery, continuing his education and starting his teaching career. Mendel's attraction to research was based on his love of nature. He was not only interested in plants, but also in meteorology and theories of evolution. Mendel often wondered how plants obtained atypical characteristics. On one of his frequent walks around the monastery, he found an atypical variety of an ornamental plant. He took it and planted it next to the typical variety. He grew their progeny side by side to see if there would be any approximation of the traits passed on to the next generation. This experiment was "designed to support or to illustrate Lamarck's views concerning the influence of environment upon plants." He found that the plants' respective offspring retained the essential traits of the parents, and therefore were not influenced by the environment. This simple test gave birth to the idea of heredity. Mendel's research reflected his personality. Once he crossed peas and mice of different varieties "for the fun of the thing," and the phenomena of dominance and segregation "forced themselves upon notice." He saw that the traits were inherited in certain numerical ratios. He then came up with the idea of dominance and segregation of genes and set out to test it in peas. It took seven years to cross and score the plants to the thousand to prove the laws of inheritance! From his studies, Mendel derived certain basic laws of heredity: hereditary factors do not combine, but are passed intact; each member of the parental generation transmits only half of its hereditary factors to each offspring (with certain factors "dominant" over others); and different offspring of the same parents receive different sets of hereditary factors. Mendel's work became the foundation for modern genetics. The impact of genetic theory is no longer questioned in anyone's mind. Many diseases are known to be inherited, and pedigrees are typically traced to determine the probability of passing along an hereditary disease. Plants are now designed in laboratories to exhibit desired characteristics. The practical result of Mendel's research is that it not only changed the way we perceive the world, but also the way we live in it.

Mandel studied what we now call dominant and recessive traits. he showed how some traits of an individual could be passed to their young. most of his work was done on peas and actually rejected when he asked other scientists if they agreed. it wasnt until (i believe) after his death his work was 'rediscovered' and shown to be correct and useful.

the nazi conscept of a pure race used information that we had gained about human genetics (such as if you have blond hair you must be homozygous for the blond gene) and, through some unbeknown to me process, decided that this made you better than others.

one thing that is important to remember is that science can tell you what is true (or rather what may be true) and not what is morally correct. in my opinion, just because you are homozygous for a specific gene, doesnt mean you are morally superior or inferior than anyone else. i would go far as to say that most people agree with this now-a-days.

Gregor's family, particularly his sister Grete, takes care of him after his transformation. They bring him food and attempts to understand his new needs, even though they struggle to come to terms with his new form.

Sutton's work built on Mendel's work by proposing that genes are located on chromosomes. He suggested that genes on paired chromosomes segregate during meiosis, similar to how Mendel observed the segregation of alleles in his studies on pea plants. This laid the foundation for the understanding of genetic inheritance and the role of chromosomes in passing on traits.

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They inherited a T (tall) allele from the tall parent, and a t (short) allele from the short parent. This is only if we assume that both parents are homozygous, which the short parent would need to be for the short trait to show. If this is true, then the F1 generation would show the tall trait 4/4 times, and would end up with the genotype Tt 4/4 times.

Gregor Johann Mendel was born on July 20, 1822.

Inheritance Patterns! By studying pea plants, Mendal came up with 4 theories of inheritance patterns: 1) Alternate forms of genes exist 2) 2 genes per trait exist 3) A gamete only carries one allele 4) There is a dominant and a recessive allele

Gregor Johann Mendel was born to parents, Rosine and Anton Mendel on July 20, 1822, in the Czech Republic. He has two sisters, Theresia Mendel and Veronica Mendel. Gregor Mendel was never married and has no children.

Gregor Mendel discovered the dominant and recessive mode of genetic inheritance.

Gregor Mendel came up with the first formulation of the laws of inheritance of dominant and recessive traits.

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he study math and phyics also the pea plants

He first learned about them when he was on a journey to Mecca. His best friend and long time girlfriend Phoebe was alaong for the ride, and she had fallen, breaking her face. They tried to figure out whys he had fallen when a leaf monkey came up form behind and started to throw coins at them. This is when the lightbulb was invented.

The monk named Gregor Mendel is called the Father of Genetics. His experiments with pea plants showed that the inheritance of certain traits follows particular patterns, subsequently becoming the foundation of modern genetics and leading to the study of heredity. Even though he did his work in the mid 1800's, he wasn't given credit until the turn of the century (1900).

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Gregor Mendel studied seven traits in pea plants. These traits were flower color, flower position, seed color, seed shape, pod color, pod shape, and plant height. Mendel's work with these traits laid the foundation for the field of genetics.

Well it is the first daughter

Sweet Pea having seven contrasting traits.

He discovered that certain genetic traits obeyed statistical laws. He postulated that the frequency of the appearance of those traits was best explained by dominance, recessiveness and co-dominance of genetic material passed from the parent plants.

Mendel was doing research in his lab... and found that when two parents with contrasting characters are crossed only one character is expressed in F1 generation and in F2 generation both characters appear in separate plants in a definite proportion. the one which dominated in F1 was a dominant character and thus the Principle of Dominance was discovered.

Genetic drift is the term used for random evolutionary developments that have equal "survival-value" with respect to natural selection. Natural selection defines broad parameters for what kind of traits organisms existing in a certain environment should ideally have, but within these parameters there is a lot of room for random drift.