Gregor Mendel
Lesson:
Gregor Mendel is known as the father of genetics.
His experiments showed that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns. He cross-fertilized pea plants that had clearly opposite characteristics- tall with short, smooth with wrinkled, those containing green seeds with those containing yellow seeds, etc and reached a conclusion- there are dominant and recessive traits passed on randomly from parents to offspring.
Because of this we now know that we inherit certain traits from each of our parents. Can you think of any traits you inherited that are the same as your parents or even grandparents?Experiments:
Alien DNA game
Extracting DNA from a strawberry
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