Gregor Mendel
The father of modern genetics
Who is He?
Gregor Mendel had a tough childhood. He failed a lot in his life time and wasn’t recognized for his accomplishments until after he died. He is now known as the father of modern genetics, because he was one of the first people to study genetics.
Childhood
Successes
He was a smart, and gifted student in grade school
He made good relationships with teachers.
Struggles
Failed failed his exam in college over 4 times
- Couldn’t find a job.
Experimental Design
- Gregor Mendel took different types of peas to see what traits were more dominant.
- He also wrote papers on pea plants and learned a lot about hybrid plants and genetics.
Dominant and Reccesive effects
Example of Effect
More Data
- New ‘species’ can appear in the form of hybrids
- Great difficulty exists in explaining why these hybrids gave rise to new hybrids
- Whatever the mechanism of heredity, it involved both the male and the female.
This means that we can create new species with new traits, functions, and much more.
Reactions
Many Scientists didn’t acknowledge his work until almost 35 years later. Nobody understood how the experiments with the pea plants could be applied to other organisms.
But after some time three scientists rediscovered his work and it helped them to dig further into their study of genetics.