Genetics & Contribution of Mendel
Breeding plants and animals were done by the farmers selectively for thousands of years to produce more useful hybrids. It was because of the lack of proper knowledge or the ignorance of the actual mechanisms of governing inheritance that made it quite difficult to get a good result out of it. It was only in the last century and a half that careful laboratory experiments were carried out to get the perfect knowledge of these genetic mechanisms. There were inventions of better microscopes by the year 1890 that helped biologists in finding out the basic facts of sexual reproduction and cell division. It helped a lot to get the right understanding as to what happens when it comes to transmission of hereditary traits from parents to children. To explain hereditary, a number of hypotheses were suggested. Still, it was Gregor Mendel who was a Central European monk who was able to explain it in the best way. His idea got published in the year 1866, but it took a long time until he was recognized in 1900. It should be noted that it was long after his death that his ideas got accepted. When it comes to his early adult life, he taught Physics, Mathematics, and Greek where he was also found to be spending in relative obscurity. He became the abbot of his monastery in his later days where he put aside his scientific work.
Observation by Gregor Mendel
Mostly Mendel’s research dealt with a plant where he discovered the basic underlying principles of heredity. It was applied to people as well as animals as the genetic mechanisms are same for all complex life forms. Mendel discovered that without any blending of parent characteristics, certain traits show up in offspring. For example, when it comes to the white or purple pea flowers, there is no appearance of intermediate colours in the offspring of cross-pollinated pea plants. It was observed by Mendel that there were seven traits that were quite easy to recognize where it also occurred in one of two forms apparently.
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