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    Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) is known as the father of genetics. Through experiments with pea plants between 1856-1863, cultivating over 28,000 plants, Mendel discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He found that traits are passed to offspring as distinct units inherited from each parent, either dominantly or recessively. Mendel's work with pea plants led him to formulate his two laws of inheritance - the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment. He later experimented with hawkweed plants and honeybees, but his results were less clear and his work was not fully recognized until the late 19th century.

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    Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) is known as the father of genetics. Through experiments with pea plants between 1856-1863, cultivating over 28,000 plants, Mendel discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He found that traits are passed to offspring as distinct units inherited from each parent, either dominantly or recessively. Mendel's work with pea plants led him to formulate his two laws of inheritance - the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment. He later experimented with hawkweed plants and honeybees, but his results were less clear and his work was not fully recognized until the late 19th century.

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    Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) is known as the father of genetics. Through experiments with pea plants between 1856-1863, cultivating over 28,000 plants, Mendel discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He found that traits are passed to offspring as distinct units inherited from each parent, either dominantly or recessively. Mendel's work with pea plants led him to formulate his two laws of inheritance - the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment. He later experimented with hawkweed plants and honeybees, but his results were less clear and his work was not fully recognized until the late 19th century.

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    Gregor Mendel

    The father of Genetics.


    Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) is known for the creation of genetic science.
    In the 19th century, it was commonly believed that the offspring possess the intermediate traits coming from
    parents but Heredity was not really understood and the concepts are extinct.
    Gregor Mendel traditionally explained of how traits from one generation to another.After initial experiments
    with pea plants, Mendel settled on studying seven traits that seemed to be inherited independently of other
    traits; seed shape, flower color, seed coat, pod shape, unripe pod color, flower location, and plantheight. He first
    focused on seed shape, which was either angular or round. Between 1856 and 1863 Mendel cultivated and
    tested some 28,000 plants or more, most of the plants were pea plants ( Pisum savitum). This study showed that,
    when true-breeding different varieties were crossed to each other (e.g., tall plants fertilized by short plants), in
    the second generation, one in four pea plants had purebred recessive traits and two out of 4 were hybrids, and
    the other and dominant. His experiments led him to make two generalizations, the Law of Segregation and the
    Law of Independent Assortment, which later came to be known as Mendel’s Laws of Inheritance.

    HIS OTHER EXPERIMENTS.

    Mendel began his studies on heredity using mice but his bishop didn’t like his studies on animal sex so he
    switched to plants. Mendel also bred bees in a bee house that was built for him, using bee hives that he
    designed. He also studied atronomy and meteorology, founding the ‘Austrian Meteorological Society’ in
    1865. The majority of his published works was related to meteorology. Mendel also experimented
    with hawkweed (Hieracium) and honeybees. He published a report on his work with hawkweed, a group of
    plants of great interest to scientists at the time because of their diversity. However, the results of Mendel's
    inheritance study in hawkweeds was unlike his results for peas; the first generation was very variable and many
    of their offspring were identical to the maternal parent. In his correspondence with Carl Nägelii he discussed his
    results but was unable to explain them. It was not appreciated until the end of the nineteen century that many
    hawkweed species were apomictic, producing most of their seeds through an asexual process.
    None of his results on bees survived, except for a passing mention in the reports of Moravian Apiculture
    Society. All that is known definitely is that he used Cyprian and Carniolan bees, which were particularly
    aggressive to the annoyance of other monks and visitors of the monastery such that he was asked to get rid of
    them. Mendel, on the other hand, was fond of his bees, and referred to them as "my dearest little animals".
    He also described novel plant species, and these are denoted with the botanical author abbreviation "Mendel".
    1.What do you think was Mendel looking for his experiments?

    Gregor Mendel, through his work on pea plants, discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that
    genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent. Mendel tracked the segregation of
    parental genes andtheir appearance in the offspring as dominant or recessive traits.

    2. What do you think did he choose garden peas?


    Because green pea plants are easy to cultivate, pea plants are hermaphrodite which means that they have both
    female and male sexual organs. Pea plants can generate many as Mendel can in just a short period of time (The
    main reason for Mendel choosing pea plant), and lastly pea pleants have many distinct traits, he focused on
    seven such contrasting pair of traits.

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