BIOL 2107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Product Rule, Phenotype, Punnett Square

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Gregor mendel discovered the basic principles of genetics. Mendel was the first scientist to combine data collection, analysis, and theory to understand heredity: father of genetics, he was a scientist. He developed a theory, looked outside the box, though data collection and analysis. He inferred genetic laws about the appearance and disappearance of traits during different generations: no genetics before this guy. They didn"t even know what a cell was. Genetics explains the mechanisms that determine the inheritance of traits. Genes are the basic units of heredity: heredity is the way that genes transmit traits from parents to offspring, genes are passed from one generation to the next. Genes are passed down through sexual reproduction. He came up with the theory of genetics. Background to mendel"s work: the historical puzzle of inheritance. Artificial selection was the first applied genetic technique: purposeful control of mating by choice of parents for the next generation, artificial is manmade.

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