Gregor Mendel Project
The Founder of Genetics
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Gregor Mendel was a man who had many hardships and accomplishments unfold in his lifetime. One of his accomplishments was finding the foundation of how genetics work, but unfortunately Mendel was not recognized as finding this concept until after he died.
Early In Mendel's life
PROS :)
- Recognized as a gifted student
- Accepted into University of OlomoucCONS :(
-Parents couldn't afford the boarding school in Germany
-Failed his exams over 4 times
Mendel studied heredity through the pea plant experiment
Experiment
In this experiment Mendel crossed different type of pea stems with each other. In this experiment Mendel found that when he crossed the green and yellow peas he got green peas, but when those peas reproduced there was yellow ones as well.
Purpose
Gregor Mendel was trying to determine how traits were developed. He did this with the data results of the pea plant experiment.
FIndings
In his experiment Mendel discovered what Dominate & Recessive traits were. Dominate traits are traits from one biological parent that over powers the specific trait making it a specific dominate way. A recessive trait is a trait that is carried in the organisms DNA, but not necessarily one of their traits.
Other Scientist Opinions
When Gregor Mendel released his data from the experiment other scientists were skeptical. They were not sure if his experiment was even related to how organisms get traits so they completely ignored the experiment for 2 decades. When this theory was rediscovered Mendel had been passed away, but it did become the foundation of how scientists learned about how genetics work.