Gregor Mendel Poster
Founder of Modern Genitics
Description 👳
Early life👶
Successes
1.Was recognized as a gifted child
2.Was accepted into the university of Olomouc
Struggles
1.Was born into a very poor family
2.His father was injured on the farmExperimental design🔱
Tried to figure out how many different forms of pea plants would result in breeding two pea plants together. Was curious about how a green pea could result from its two yellow parent pea plants.
Data🔢
1.Round- 5,474--Angular-1,850
2. Green- 428-- Yellow- 152
3. Long-787-- Short-277
This data means that there are more dominant genes that recessive genes.Reactions😱
Was named the father of genetics. His work wasn't recognized until at least 40 years after his death. It was a little too late to react because he was dead by then. Once they did react the referred to the findings as Mendel’s laws.
Foundation🏠
Vocabulary🔠
Dominant
Definition: The one of a pair of alternative alleles that masks the effect of the other when both are present in the same cell or organism.
Example: The yellow peas in Gregor Mendel’s experiment were the dominant genes.
Recessive
Definition: Gene that gets covered up by a dominant gene.
Example:The green peas in Mendel’s experiment.
CoDominant
Definition: Gene that is neither dominant nor recessive.
Example: ABO blood types.