Year: 2022

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

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

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 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

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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

"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

VAST UNDERTAKING. Mendel initially conducted about 260 monohybrid crosses in 70 plants. It was followed by analysis of 10,000 plants for false impregnation, although cross experiments were limited to under 1,000 plants. In all he studied 29,000 pea plants. https://lnkd.in/dZZbX5P View in LinkedIn

PART ONE. "Mendel's hypothesis essentially has four parts. The first part or "law" states that, "Alternative versions of genes account for variations in inherited characters." In a nutshell, this is the concept of alleles. Alleles are different versions of genes that impart the same characteristic." https://lnkd.in/dfsvaCA View in LinkedIn

PART TWO. "The second law states that, "For each character trait (ie: height, color, texture etc.) an organism inherits two genes, one from each parent." This statement alludes to the fact that when somatic cells are produced from two gametes, one allele comes from the mother, one from the father. These alleles may be the same (true-breeding organisms), or different (hybrids)." https://lnkd.in/dfsvaCA View in LinkedIn