Gregor Mendel
By Macie Funke
Early Years
Successes
- Earned top marks in mathematics and science
- Free study whatever he wished
Struggles
- Needed money for his education
- Failed multiple times
Experimental Design
Investigate pea plants with different kind seeds with yellow and green and expand the understanding of genetics
Facts/examples:
He had one yellow and one green and it came out as an yellow
He had 2 yellow and it came out yellows and greens
Data
Seed shape
Pod color
- Stem length
Seed shape: is it round or square etc. Pod color: green, red etc. Stem length: long, short etc.
Reactions
They identified a number of traits that follow the pattern of Mendelian inheritance and they copied it
Foundation
Vocabulary
Dominant
Definition: A gene that will overpower another gene
Example: One parent has brown eyes and one parent has blue eyes and you have blue
Recessive
Definition: Gene that gets covered up by a dominant gene
Example: Your parents have brown eyes and you have blue eyes
CoDominant
Definition: Gene that is neither dominant nor recessive
Example: One parent has brown eyes and the other has blue and you have hazel