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    Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk who conducted pioneering experiments in plant hybridization in the 1850s and 1860s. Through experiments crossing pea plants with distinct and opposite traits, Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity, including that traits are passed to offspring through discrete units (now known as genes) and can be dominant or recessive. Mendel presented his findings in 1865, but they were largely ignored until the early 20th century, when his work became widely recognized as laying the foundation of modern genetics and heredity theory. Mendel's laws of segregation and independent assortment established that traits are inherited independently and randomly from parents to offspring.

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    Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk who conducted pioneering experiments in plant hybridization in the 1850s and 1860s. Through experiments crossing pea plants with distinct and opposite traits, Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity, including that traits are passed to offspring through discrete units (now known as genes) and can be dominant or recessive. Mendel presented his findings in 1865, but they were largely ignored until the early 20th century, when his work became widely recognized as laying the foundation of modern genetics and heredity theory. Mendel's laws of segregation and independent assortment established that traits are inherited independently and randomly from parents to offspring.

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    Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk who conducted pioneering experiments in plant hybridization in the 1850s and 1860s. Through experiments crossing pea plants with distinct and opposite traits, Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity, including that traits are passed to offspring through discrete units (now known as genes) and can be dominant or recessive. Mendel presented his findings in 1865, but they were largely ignored until the early 20th century, when his work became widely recognized as laying the foundation of modern genetics and heredity theory. Mendel's laws of segregation and independent assortment established that traits are inherited independently and randomly from parents to offspring.

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    Gregor Mendel Biography

    Botanist, Scientist (18221884)


    Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk who discovered the basic principles of heredity
    through experiments in his garden. Mendel's observations became the foundation of
    modern genetics and the study of heredity, and he is widely considered a pioneer in
    the field of genetics.
    Gregor Mendel, known as the "father of modern genetics," was born in Austria in
    1822. A monk, Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through
    experiments in his monastery's garden. His experiments showed that the
    inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, subsequently
    becoming the foundation of modern genetics and leading to the study of heredity.
    Experiments and Theories
    Around 1854, Mendel began to research the transmission of hereditary traits in
    plant hybrids. At the time of Mendels studies, it was a generally accepted fact that
    the hereditary traits of the offspring of any species were merely the diluted blending
    of whatever traits were present in the parents. It was also commonly accepted
    that, over generations, a hybrid would revert to its original form, the implication of
    which suggested that a hybrid could not create new forms. However, the results of
    such studies were often skewed by the relatively short period of time during which
    the experiments were conducted, whereas Mendels research continued over as
    many as eight years (between 1856 and 1863), and involved tens of thousands of
    individual plants.
    Mendel chose to use peas for his experiments due to their many distinct varieties,
    and because offspring could be quickly and easily produced. He cross-fertilized pea
    plants that had clearly opposite characteristicstall with short, smooth with
    wrinkled, those containing green seeds with those containing yellow seeds, etc.
    and, after analyzing his results, reached two of his most important conclusions: the
    Law of Segregation, which established that there are dominant and recessive traits
    passed on randomly from parents to offspring (and provided an alternative to
    blending inheritance, the dominant theory of the time), and the Law of Independent

    Assortment, which established that traits were passed on independently of other


    traits from parent to offspring. He also proposed that this heredity followed basic
    statistical laws. Though Mendels experiments had been conducted with pea plants,
    he put forth the theory that all living things had such traits.
    In 1865, Mendel delivered two lectures on his findings to the Natural Science
    Society in Brno, who published the results of his studies in their journal the following
    year, under the title Experiments on Plant Hybrids. Mendel did little to promote his
    work, however, and the few references to his work from that time period indicated
    that much of it had been misunderstood. It was generally thought that Mendel had
    shown only what was already commonly known at the timethat hybrids eventually
    revert to their original form. The importance of variability and its evolutionary
    implications were largely overlooked. Furthermore, Mendel's findings were not
    viewed as being generally applicable, even by Mendel himself, who surmised that
    they only applied to certain species or types of traits. Of course, his system
    eventually proved to be of general application and is one of the foundational
    principles of biology.
    Theory of Heredity

    Gregor Mendel pioneered heredity theory, proving that many physical traits
    can be passed on from generation to generation. These inheritable traits are
    dictated by DNA. Mendel explains heredity theory in the law of independent
    assortment and in the law of segregation. Hereditary theory is the idea that
    many physical traits can be passed from one generation to the next by DNA, by
    passing on the set of instructions or genes in your DNA to your offspring. You
    pass on the physical traits that you possess yourself. And this is all based our
    modern understanding is all based on Mendel's work. Prior to Mendel, people had
    this idea that maybe there is blending going on. It is very complex and it just
    didn't match reality. But what he discovered is that with most traits you'll have
    dominant versions and recessive versions. And you'll typically get two copies of
    the gene two alleles for every gene and how they interact with each other

    determines

    what

    physical

    traits

    you

    have.

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