Mendels

Mendel on Patterns of Inheritance

Mendel manipulated this process by opening the flower buds and cutting off the pollen-bearing structures, these were call anthers, using these anthers from different flowers; Mendel could control exactly which sperm were used to fertilize which eggs. Mendel attempted to track the transmission of specific genes instead of specific phenotypes. Most researchers during his time focused on the transmission of traits, and used pangenes as the basis of inheritance. Pangenes essentially involved a mess of different potential traits and trait sets, each giving a "vote" on the final traits shown. Mendel's genes involved two genes, each giving one vote on one trait. [ (Mendel) ] [ ("Francis) ]. From his childhood he spent time on a farm, so Mendel understood the value of plants and breeding them a developing the productive varieties of their corps, he had a lifelong interest in gardening and horticulture, at the young age of 21 he enter the priesthood, that what is now the Czech Republic this gave him time to indulge his love for the plants and breeding them. He knew of the unanswered questions about the heredity arising from Darwin’s Theory, which is an organism that can be easily manipulated in some of the breeding experiments (Mendel). Therefore, because of the unanswered question I believe that he decided to study the pea, which is an organism this can be easily manipulated in breeding experiments, his pea plants cam in many different varieties. It seem that the advantages of Mendel enjoyed of the pea as a model organism is that it took him in all kind of direction and by the 20th century when Mendel laws were gaining new adherents in scientific community, although it was not clear how Darwin’s theory and Mendel’s laws completed on another. Many of us read Mendel’s work as the believer that genetic traits occur as discrete, all or none (Mendel)

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