Gregor Mendel And His Findings
Introduction Have you ever wondered why you have blue eyes if your dad has green eyes? Or why your hair is curly but your mom's hair is straight as a board? Well that's exactly what I am going to be talking about in this blog. Perhaps you have heard of this guy named Gregor Mendel. If not that's okay. He was a learner, teacher, and a scientist. He used pea plants as his model system for Inheritance Demonstrated traits that are transmitted from parents to offspring in specific patterns. In other words, he used pea plants to identify how genes are passed from parent to its offspring. How we obtain our traits. He found that plants always produce offspring that look like the parent. Gregor Mendel helped make what we call punnet squares, which we all have all probably heard about in school. He also founded the Fundamental laws of inheritance which is very important to science today. Background Like I stated earlier Gregor Mendel was a learner, teacher, and a scientist. He was ...