Gregor Mendel

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Gregor Mendel



Gregor Mendel was born July 22, 1822 and died January 6, 1884. Mendel was born in Heizendorf, Austria. Mendel was the second child of Anton and Rosine Mendel. Mendel’s parents were simple farmers. Mendel had a love to work in the garden. The love for this made him think, how does the plants get its characteristics?

Gregor Mendel began to study at the St. Thomas Monastery of the Augustinain in Brunn, in 1843. Later on Mendel had began priesthood in August 1847. After becoming a priest, Mendel knew he wanted to become a teacher. In 1849, he started teaching at a secondary school in Znaim. Mendel took a teacher certification test, but failed. In 1851, Mendel went to the University of Vienna, to train to become a teacher. He wanted to be Mathematics and a Biology teacher. During the years of 1851-1853 Mendel studied Zoology, Botany Chemistry, and physics at the University of Vienna.

In 1856, Mendel became very ill. Some people thought it might be Epilepsia. Later that year Mendel returned to Brunn, where he began to teach part time. About the middle of his life, he started to have theories about heredity. Mendel used pea pod plants to use for his experiments.

Mendel discovered three basic laws had which governed the passage of a trait from one member of a species to another of the same species. The first law states the sex cells of a plant contains two different traits. The second law stated the characteristics are inherited independently from another. The third theory states each characteristic is determined by two hereditary factors, one from each parent, which decides whether a gene is dominant or recessive. These theories became a basis for the study of modern genetics. Mendel’s discoveries over the years are Particulate inheritance, Dominant and recessive traits, Genotype and Phenotype, and The Concept of Herteroygousity and Homozygousity.

The Punnett square is named after Reginald Punnett. ...