Work of Mendel

• Mendel noted how characteristics in plants are passed through generations.
• His findings are now the foundations of modern genetics.

Mendel had shown that the height characteristics in a pea plant are determind by inherited "hereditar units" passed on from each plant.

He made three conclusions:

• Characteristics in plants are determind by (what he called) "hereditary units".
• Hereditary Units can be dominant orv…