The Gregor Mendel Project
Farther of Modern Genetics
Gregor Mendel
Early Years Successes & Struggles
1. Recognized as a gifted child in grade school
2. Accepted into the University of Olomouc
Struggles:
1. Spoke a different language at home than he did at school
2. Parents could not afford his schooling
Experimental Design
Gregor Mendel researched pea plants because of their purity and easily observable characteristics. He also carried out an experiment to see if he could predict the number of long and short stem pea plants that would result when he crossed them together.
Data
Their are more Dominant than recessive genes.
Round seed shape pea plants equaled 5,474 and angular seed shape pea plants equaled 1,850.
This means that some some genes are more dominant and others are recessive.
Reactions
Foundation
EXTRA: Vocabulary
Recessive: Gene that gets covered up by a dominant gene. An example would be blue eyes in humans.
CoDominant: Gene that is neither dominant or recessive. An example would be ABO blood types in humans.