Mendel and his peas

Gregor Mendel is known for studying genetics he is also known as the "Father of Genetics"

Mendel studied a group of peas and noticed that they could either get one of 2 traits. Mendel wanted to know why traits disappeared and reappeared.

Mendel was cautious to make sure that the flowers were chosen were from true breeding plants.

To control his experiments Mendel used cross pollenation, Mendel cut the antlers from the flower os it doesn't self pollenate and ruin his experiment.

Gregor Mendel crossed purple flowers with white flower this caused the offspring of the flowers to become all purple.

When the first generation self - pollenated it turned out that the second generation was a 3:1 ratio 3 purple flowers to 1 white flower

Mendel counted all his flowers and calculated all the purple flowers to white flowers by using a ratio the result of the experiment was 3 purple flowers to 1white flower.

The results showed that traits do not blend 50/50.The pea would prerfer one trait than another. Mendel concluded that traits are determined by seperate units which are now called genes.

His studies showed that the dominate trait appeared more often that of the non dominate trait.