ANTH 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Blending Inheritance, Black Sheep, Mutation
13 Jun 2016
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Very smart, but had a series of emotional problems that persisted throughout his life. His father was a poor fruit farmer; likely on the farm that mendel developed interest in plant biology. Well-educated, he was versed in higher mathematics and physics. Parents supportive of him and scraped enough money to send him to. Minor catastrophe - father incapacitated in farming. Son usually would take over but mendel was not cut out for being a farmer. He was a qualified teacher too and had a mathematical mind. No blending inheritance; he didn"t agree with it. It couldn"t explain outlying traits - albinism, black sheep, baldness, red hair. Hybridization - selectively breeding pea plants (number of different characteristics he could control for) Pea plants - also girl and boy. They can also self-pollinate; when passed from one flower to another on one plant, it"s cross-pollination. Plants are purebred specimens - aa or aa. Offspring of aaxaa consistently produced purple flowers.
