Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...
The height of pea plants is controlled by a single gene which ... This means that all the offspring produced will be tall. In this genetic cross, Parent 1 is still tall but is heterozygous with ...
established the basis of modern genetic science. He experimented on pea plants in an effort to understand how a parent passed physical traits to its offspring. In one experiment, Mendel crossbred ...