The work of Mendel
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- The work of Mendel
- Gregor Mendel studied how characteristics in plants were passed on from parents to their offspring
- Mendel's experiments had shown that the height characteristics in pea plants was determined by sepeartley inherited units passed on from each parent.
- The ratios of tall and dwarf plants in the offspring showed that the unit for tall plants, T, was dominant over the unit for dwarf plants, t.
- Mendel reached three important conclusions
- Mendel reached three important conclusions about inheritance in plants
- Characteristics in plants are determined by inherited units
- Units are passed on from both parents, one unit from each parent
- Units can be dominant or recessive- if an individual has both the dominant and the recessive unit for a characteristic, the dominant characteristic will be expressed
- UNITS=GENES
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