Gregor Mendel Discovered the Basic Principles of Heredity
Learn about Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics, and the 7 pea plant characteristics that he examined to study the inheritance of traits.
Topics
- characteristic
- controlled mating
- cultivation
- father of genetics
- flower color
- flower position
- generation time
- genes
- genetics
- genome
- Gregor Mendel
- heredity
- inheritance
- Mendel
- model organism
- offspring
- pea plant
- pea
- Pisum sativum
- progeny
- pod color
- pod shape
- pure-breeding
- seed color
- seed shape
- stem length
- trait
- true-breeding