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    The document discusses Gregor Mendel and his experiments with pea plants that helped establish the fundamental principles of heredity and genetics. Mendel conducted experiments crossing pea plants with different traits and found traits were passed down to offspring in predictable ratios. His work formed the basis of classical genetics and heredity.

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    The document discusses Gregor Mendel and his experiments with pea plants that helped establish the fundamental principles of heredity and genetics. Mendel conducted experiments crossing pea plants with different traits and found traits were passed down to offspring in predictable ratios. His work formed the basis of classical genetics and heredity.

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    Heredity
    MENDEL EXPERIMENT
    Meaning of Heredity
    The passing of characteristics (also know as traits)
    from parents to offspring

    Genetics is the study of heredity. Gregor Mendel set the framework


    for genetics long before chromosomes or genes had been identified,
    at a time when meiosis was not well understood. Mendel selected a
    simple biological system and conducted methodical, quantitative
    analyses using large sample sizes. Because of Mendel’s work, the
    fundamental principles of heredity were revealed.
    Who is Gregor Mendel?
    GREGOR MENDEL WAS BORN ON JULY 22 1822 AT
    HEINZENDORF AND DIED ON JANUARY 6 1884 AT
    AUSTRIA-HUNGARY .HE IS A BOTANIST, TEACHER, AND
    AUGUSTINIAN PRELATE.HE IS THE FIRST PERSON TO LAY
    THE MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATION OF THE SCIENCE OF
    GENETICS, IN WHAT CAME TO BE CALLED MENDELISM.
    The genetic makeup of peas consists of two
    similar or homologous copies of each chromosome,
    one from each parent. Each pair of homologous
    Mendel chromosomes has the same linear order of genes;
    and his hence peas are diploid organisms. The same is true
    pea plant for many other plants and for virtually all animals.
    Diploid organisms utilize meiosis to produce haploid
    gametes, which contain one copy of each homologous
    chromosome that unite at fertilization to create a
    diploid zygote.
    Basic of Classical Genetics
    MENDEL GENERALIZED THE RESULTS OF HIS PEA-PLANT
    EXPERIMENTS INTO FOUR POSTULATES, SOME OF WHICH
    ARE SOMETIMES CALLED “LAWS,” THAT DESCRIBE THE
    BASIS OF DOMINANT AND RECESSIVE INHERITANCE IN
    DIPLOID ORGANISMS. THESE LAWS SUMMARIZE THE
    BASICS OF CLASSICAL GENETICS.
    Mendelian Crosses
    How Mendel pea plants
    helped us understand
    genetics?
    IN SUMMARY: MENDEL’S
    EXPERIMENTS AND HEREDITY

    Working with garden pea plants, Mendel found that crosses between parents that differed by one trait
    produced F1 offspring that all expressed the traits of one parent. Observable traits are referred to as
    dominant, and non-expressed traits are described as recessive. When the offspring in Mendel’s
    experiment were self-crossed, the F2 offspring exhibited the dominant trait or the recessive trait in a
    3:1 ratio, confirming that the recessive trait had been transmitted faithfully from the original P0parent.
    Reciprocal crosses generated identical F1 and F2 offspring ratios. By examining large sample sizes,
    Mendel showed that his crosses behaved reproducibly according to the laws of probability, and that the
    traits were inherited as independent events.
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    You
    Chanikarn & Attiphat

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