Pure genius, or an extremely good liar? While analyzing Mendel’s experiment and results, scientists believe that Mendel picked and chose what plants to fertilize so he could get the same results that supported his hypothesis of the 3:1 ratio crossing result. They concluded this because he had a small amount of variation in his studies, and his process of fertilization did not seem random, but it was planned. They also believed that he discarded the rest of the data that did not fit into his hypothesis (Gregor Mendel: Did Mendel “cheat”?). Due to the small amount of variation and planned fertilization, it is highly likely that Mendel could have cheated. The results he concluded from his experiments do seem almost too good to be true. Many believe
