Gregor Mendel Research Paper

Gregor Mendel was born into an ethnic German family his name was originally Johann but was given the name Gregor when he joined the Augustan friars He was the son of Anton and Rosine Mendel. He had two siblings, his older sister veronica, and a younger sister named Theresia. He grew up on a farm that his family had owned for at least 130 years. When he was little he worked as a gardener and studied beekeeping. When grew older he attended gymnasium (a type of school with a strong emphasis on academic learning) in opava. He would often grow ill and have to stop his studies for long periods of time. He also struggled financially to pay for his studies his younger sister Theresia gave him her dowry. He later ended up supporting her three sons two …show more content…
Every person looks different because of genes given to us by our parents. Bacteria are simple but can multiply and make exact copies of them selves. They do this by using their chromosome it contains all the information the need. All this information is referred to as genes they all look the same because there is only one parent therefore there is only one set of genes being given. Unlike the bacteria we have two parents giving us two sets of genes making us each look different. Gregor Mendel knew this and decided to work with seven characteristics of a pea plant to learn more. He observed that the green pea plants were recessive (meaning less likely of the genes) and the yellow pea plants were dominant (meaning common). It’s the same thing with your eye color or hair color you are more likely to have brown hair brown eyes than blonde hair blue eyes because the color brown is a dominant gene where the blonde and blue are recessive. Between 1856 and 1863 Mendel cultivated and tested 29,00 pea plants. His studies showed that one in four pea plants had purebred recessive alleles, two out of four were hybrid and one out of four were purebred dominant. At the time his work was criticized, but is now