What was Mendels Gene Model?
Gregor Mendel is rightly called the ‘father of genetics’ because of his early work as a plant breeder and mathematician. His experiments breeding pea plants were meticulous for the time. His results and how he recorded his experiments are the same used today to study genetics, to understand selective breeding and to understand the evolution of a species over time. Mendel bred pea plants, the seeds showed specific phenotypic characteristics that could be tracked through generations of breeding – that means the pea plants had a physical type that you could see – in his case it was wrinkly seeds, smooth seeds, yellow seeds, green seeds, short plants, tall plants, red flowers and white flowers. As he bred the different phenotypes together he recorded the type and proportion of offspring, reaching a number of conclusions as he did so. The most important being the principle of segregation explained below “According to the principle of segregation, for any particular trait, the pair of allele
