Article: Mendelian Genetics

Mendelian Genetics

Gregor Mendel (1822-1884), an Austrian monk and botanist, was curious and loved nature. He grew plants with diverse flower colors, and he cross-pollinated plant varieties to create hybrids . Mendel's fascination with "the striking regularity with which the same hybrid forms always reappeared," broadened his quest into discovering laws for inheriting any trait, not just flower color, from one generation to the next.

Mendel designed a series of experiments to learn the statistical rules governing the features that appeared in hybrids and in their offspring. Mendel identified plant varieties that exhibited the same features over many generations when the plants were ...

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