BIOL 1101 Chapter 10: Chapter 10
5 Oct 2016
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Gregor mendel"s experiments with garden peas, performed 1860s, provided the rst answers to these questions. Mendel was an augustinian monk who lived in a monastery in brunn, now part of the. But he had an unusual education for a monk in the mid 19th century. Mendel studied a variety of heritable characteristics called characters, such as ower colour and seed shape. A variation in chapter, such as purple or white ower colour, is called a trait. Mendel established that characters are passed to offspring in the form of discrete hereditary factors, which are now known as genes. Mendel observed that rather than blending evenly, many parental traits appear unchanged in offspring, whereas others disappear in one generation to reappear unchanged in the next. Mendel chose true-breeding garden peas for his experiments. Mendel chose the garden pea for his research because the plant could be grown easily without a lot of equipment.
