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by Agustin Sarmiento 8 years ago

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Mendel and his peas

Gregor Mendel's work with pea plants laid the foundation for modern genetics. He discovered that traits do not blend evenly but rather follow a predictable pattern, often in a 3:1 ratio.

Mendel and his peas

Mendel and his peas

From his resuts, Mendel proved that all trails do not blend in a 50/50 raitio. pea plant preferred one trait over anthor ina ratio of about 3to1. Mendel concluded that pea traits like flower color were determined by separate units. Today we call those units genes.

The pollination can be transferred by wind and animals. Alos it can be transferred by it self-pollination.

When Memdel put 2 purple. and one come out of a white . Alos when he put 2 white and one come out of purple.

To be better teh experiments, Mendel has used a method called cross-pollination. The part of the flower (male) that contain pollen wore removed so the flower could not self-pollination.

Gregor Mendel Gregor Johann Mendel was a German-speaking Moravian-Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Born: July 20, 1822, Hynčice, CzechRepublic Died: January 6, 1884, Brno, Czech Republic

Traits A trait is a characteristic that an organism can pass ti its offsping.