Gregor Mendel. Some of you may know him as the “Father of Modern Genetics,” others might not know him at all but his discoveries have impacted us all in some way. His experiments may have been completed on the genetics of pea plants and these differ from actual human genetics but the principles that he developed are the same for all genetics. Gregor Mendel was a man of modern science and his principles have allowed us to understand genetics more thoroughly. With Mendel’s background we are able to understand why he created his experiment and we can use these results to develop our own reason on why genetics affect us.
Born on July 22, 1822 in Hyncice, Czechoslovakia Gregor Mendel got his start. He was born into a family of peasants where his father and grandfathers occupations consisted of gardening. At a very young age Mendel started his education studying under a local priest where he learned the basics of math, reading, and writing. By the time Mendel became a teenager he was well on his way to becoming a man of science. In his late teens he was admitted to an institute of Philosophy where he study for many years until he ran into financial trouble and could no longer afford to continue his schooling at the institute. Although his financial situation proved a problem for him to continue his studies it did not slow him down. He went back to the monastery in Brunn where he later became a priest. After he was accepted as a priest he was made in charge of overseeing the gardens and there processes. After a few months of looking after the gardens he decided that he did not have enough knowledge about gardening and science to know how the plants worked; therefore, Mendel enrolled and completed four years at the University of Vienna....
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In today’s modern age science is moving at a rapid pace; one of those scientific fields that has taken the largest leaps is that of genetics. When genetics first comes to mind, many of us think of it as a type of science fiction, or a mystical dream. Yet genetics is here, it is real, and has numerous ethical implications.
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Gregor Mendel was born into a German family, as a young man Mendel worked as a gardener and studied beekeeping. In his later life Mendel gained his fame as the founder of the modern science of genetics. The research that was his claim to fame was his pea plant experiment. Mendel looked at seven different characteristics of the pea plants. For example with seed colors when he bred a yellow pea and green pea together their offspring plant was always yellow. Though, in the next generation of plants, the green peas reemerged at a 1:3 ratio. To explain what he had discovered, Mendel put together the terms “recessive” and “dominant” in reference to specific traits. Such as, in the previous example the green peas were recessive and the yellow peas
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Mendel wrote that genes are passed from parents to their children and can produce the same physical characteristics as the parents.
The exercise involved a series of ‘mating’ events resulting in 6 generations. Each mating event produced offspring with ‘possible’ newly inherited traits. The idea of ‘chance’ was included through simple coin tosses. Also, ideas of selection and mutations were introduced into the ‘gene pool’, which presented a deeper and more clear understanding of Mendelian inheritance and the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. Upon reaching the third generation, A B1 mutant allele was introduced to the blue locus-influencing fin shape and a G1 mutant allele was introduced to the green locus-influencing Mouth
the effect light has on the growth of pea plants. It will take place in an environment with controlled light, with equal amounts of plants being grown in the light and in the dark. All elements of the experiment other than light will be kept the same, such as amount of seeds in each pot, amount of soil in each pot and amount of water given to each plant each day. This will ensure a fair experiment. Prediction: I predict that in general, the plants grown in the light will grow better than those grown in the dark.
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Genes are expected to give offspring hereditary similarities to the parent. However, this was not known and Gregory Mendel asked himself what was passed on by parents to their offspring that is the basis for similarity. Mendel would go on through experiments with pea plants to answer short questions. The answers were short as well as to say that the passing of characteristics from parents to the offspring is throug...
Gregor Mendel, born as Johann Mendel, is considered to be one of the most significant historic scientist of all time. He was an Austrian scientist and monk and is best known as the “Father of Modern Genetics.” He founded the science of genetics and discovered many things that dealt with heredity that still applies to our world today. He is remembered for paving the way for scientists and future generations to come. Unfortunately, Mendel’s work went unnoticed until 16 years after his death and 34 years after he published his research. Though Mendel lay covered in his grave, his work would eventually be uncovered. Although Mendel was not there to see it,
Genetic testing has become very popular as technology has improved, and has opened many doors in the scientific community. Genetic testing first started in 1866 by a scientist known as, Gregor Mendel, when he published his work on pea plants. The rest was history after his eyes opening experiments on pea plants. However, like any other scientific discovery, it bought conflicts which caused major controversies and a large population disagreed with the concept of playing with the genetic codes of human beings. Playing God was the main argument that people argument that people had against genetics. genetic testing became one of the major conflicts conflicts to talk about, due to the fact that parents could now have the option of deciding if they
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Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15th, 1564. His father, Vincenzo was a music teacher and musician. After his family moved to Florence, Galilei was sent to a monastery to be educated. He was so happy there that he decided to become a monk, but his father wanted him to be a medical doctor and brought him home to Florence. He was never really interested in medicine and studied mathematics at the University of Pisa. He was especially interested in famous mathematicians like Euclid (geometry) and Archimedes. In fact in 1586 he wrote his first book about one of Archimedes theories. He eventually became head of mathematics at the University of Pisa where he first wrote about a very important idea that he developed. It was about using experiments to test theories. He wrote about falling bodies in motion using inclined planes to test his theories.