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arabera Agustin Sarmiento 8 years ago

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Mendel and his peas

Mendel's experiments with pea plants led to groundbreaking discoveries in the field of genetics. By observing characteristics such as pod color, seed color, flower color, and seed shape, he identified that these traits are inherited from parent organisms.

Mendel and his peas

Traits

The conclusion is that he discovered something new in plants and in the Human race. They were called traits, they are basically passed down by your parents.

genetics is the study of heredity

A trait is a characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring.

When Mendel realized that traits are passed down by your parents he got into pea plants.

Mendel Discovered something new that is called traits.

He noticed that a trait from a pea plant did not always show up in the offspring.

Mendal was in his laboratory and then he decided to look at some pea plants.

The Traits were

Seed shape was smooth or wrinkled
Seed Color was Yellow or Green
Pod Color was Green or Yellow
Flower Color was purple or white.