Mendel's Genetic Experiment

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The laws of heredity discovered by G. Mendel are similar for all complex life creatures and he concluded that genes come in pairs one from each parent inherited as distinct units. Also, the mathematical patterns of inheritance as well as genes segregation and their appearance in the offspring as dominant or recessive traits were determined during his genetic experiments with pea plants and outlined three laws oh inheritance. First, the Law of Dominance is expressed where one allele dominates over recessive one. For instance, during the experiment with the pea plants, the parents were both homozygous (with identical forms of alleles YY and gg. In the F1-generation the plants were heterozygous (Yg), however with all seven pea plant traits, he examined that yellow (Y) allele appeared to be dominant over the green (G). If the genotype is Yg (heterozygous), the phenotype is yellow, but the green (recessive) will not be altered by the dominant yellow …show more content…
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