Gregor Mendel's Principles Of Inheritance Patterns

Brassica rapa is a Wisconsin fast plant which is as well a member of the mustard family. These plants are considered fast plants because they develop very quickly, flowering in 13-18 days and completing their entire reproductive cycle in about 35 days. With these Wisconsin fast plants we observed the happening of Gregor Mendel’s principles of inheritance patterns. Starting off, some history of Gregor Mendel is that he was an Austrian monk who studied the inheritance of seven different traits in the garden pea, and developed a set of principles to describe the spread of those characteristics (Casper et al 2016). Gregor Mendal was easily able to achieve this by using true breeding plants. A true breeding plant is a plant that only produces offspring like itself when self-fertilization takes place. …show more content…
The offspring’s of the true breeding plants are called parental plants (Casper et al 2016). In Mendals handy work he crossed a tall plant with a short plant, and in this cross only the tall plants were produced, somehow after this cross the other form of the trait (being short) completely disappeared. The offspring from these parental generations is called the first filial or f1 generation (Casper et al 2016). After his findings Mendel let his f1 generations self-fertilize and in comparison to his first cross the trait that disappeared, re appeared in about ¼ of the offspring. This cross was known as second filial or f2 generation. Because the tall trait covered up the short trait the tall trait is considered dominant and the short trait is considered recessive (McClean,