Gregor Mendel
By: Clayton Haight
Description
Gregor Mendel is a scientist that studied the heredity of pea plants.
Early Years
Successes
1. Gifted child in grade school.
2. He finished his degree
Struggles
1. Couldn't pass the hard teaching exams.
2. Failed over four times.Experimental Design
Experimental Design:
1. Studied pea plants and how they make different kinds of them.
2. Crossed two different plants together to make one new plant.
Data
1. Pod color went from green to yellow
2. Stem length from long to short
3. Seed shape went from round to angular
This data means that there was a lot of changes in the data.
Reactions
Scientists thought that he was just restating what was already known about hybrid offspring.
Foundation
Vocabulary
Dominant
Definition: a trait that will appear in the offspring
Example: brown eyes
Recessive
Definition: form of a gene that is not expressed as a trait
Example: grey, green, hazel, blue eyes
CoDominant
Definition: trait that is neither dominant or recessive
Example: curly hair