Mendel / inheritance
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- Mendel / inheritance (genetics)
- Bred bees and mice
- 29000 experiments
- Bred and studied pea plants
- 7 characteristics (flowers colour) (height)
- Found that parents have similar characteristic
- He taught physics
- Genes are found in the nucleus on things called chromosomes
- They contains hundreds of different genes in a string
- Genes tell cells what to do. They code for proteins. So the gene for brown eye colour will tell the cell to make a brown pigment
- Allele - alternative form of a gene e.g. there are three alleles for eye colour (blue, brown, green)
- If someone has 2 alleles the same they are HOMOZYGOUS
- If a person has 2 different alleles they are HETEROZYGOUS
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