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"THE PEA PLANT which Mendel chose for conducting experiments, is most ideal for controlled breeding, since it can easily be subjected to cross pollination. Mendel was fortunate enough in choosing the seven pairs of contrasting characters in pea plants. It was later discovered that the genes responsible for these characters are located on separate chromosomes. Mendel was also fortunate in the sense that the characters he had chosen in the pea plant did not show any interaction or linkage." https://lnkd.in/dwD9Nyb View in LinkedIn

LUCK OR CARE? "Mendel obtained several varieties of peas, then subjected them to two years of trials to verify that his experimental strains would breed true –– that is, if allowed to self fertilize would always produce progeny of the same type. The use of true–breeding strains was a key factor in Mendel’s success." (34 varieties of peas for a two year trial). https://lnkd.in/dJChHYG View in LinkedIn

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MENDEL'S TEXT. "Experiments in plant hybridization (1865). Gregor Mendel. Read at the February 8th, and March 8th, 1865, meetings of the Brünn Natural History Society. "This experiment was practically confined to a small plant group, and is now, after eight years’ pursuit, concluded in all essentials." https://lnkd.in/dJChHYG View in LinkedIn

MENDEL'S EARLY EXPERIMENT. "This experiment was designed to support or to illustrate Lamarck's views concerning the influence of environment upon plants. He found that the plants' respective offspring retained the essential traits of the parents, and therefore were not influenced by the environment. This simple test gave birth to the idea of heredity." https://lnkd.in/dfsvaCA View in LinkedIn

MENDEL'S ABUNDANT CURIOSITY. "On one of his frequent walks around the monastery, he found an atypical variety of an ornamental plant. He took it and planted it next to the typical variety. He grew their progeny side by side to see if there would be any approximation of the traits passed on to the next generation." https://lnkd.in/dfsvaCA View in LinkedIn

THE CLOISTERED LIFE. "As a child, Mendel attended a school in which natural sciences were emphasized and the students learned importance of beekeeping and how to grow fruit. Indeed, Mendel would be interested in beekeeping well into adulthood and completed a series of experiments at his monastery later in life." https://lnkd.in/dZZbX5P View in LinkedIn

R&D ON MENDEL'S GENES. "The discipline of classical genetics is founded on the hereditary behavior of the seven genes studied by Gregor Mendel. The advent of molecular techniques has unveiled much about the identity of these genes." https://lnkd.in/d42Fwde View in LinkedIn

MENDEL THE NATURALIST. "During his childhood he worked as a gardener, and as a young man attended the Olmutz Philosophical Institute. In 1843 he entered an Augustinian monastery in Brunn, Czechoslovakia. Soon afterward, his natural interest in science and specifically hereditary science led him to start experiments with the pea plant. Mendel's attraction for scientific research was based on his love of nature in general. He was not only interested in plants, but also in meteorology and theories of evolution." https://lnkd.in/dfsvaCA View in LinkedIn

MONOGENIC INHERITANCE. "Mendelian inheritance patterns are well-established, and readily recognizable as ‘textbook’ examples, for many single gene diseases, and a few digenic cases." https://lnkd.in/d7vkJAx View in LinkedIn