Gregor Mendel Research Paper

Everyone is unique, each person has a distinct set of characteristics, or traits,
that are different from anyone else's. Some traits are fairly noticeable, such as eye
color, height, or freckles. Others are less visible, like musical talent or risks of disease.
Some traits are inherited and others are shaped by the environment. For example, hair
color and nose shape are controlled by genes, which are inherited by our parents. The
language we speak and the type of food we like to eat are based on the environment or
culture we grew up in.
Gregor Mendel was born a peasant in Austria, in 1822. His father taught him the
techniques of animal breeding and plant grafting. This peaked Mendel's interests and
led him to do eight years of research, conducting

experiments on breeding. He raised
thousands of pea plants and carefully documented the results of breeding and
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crossbreeding them. At the end of his eight years experimenting, he published a paper
where he presented a series of four conclusions that are the basis of what we call
Mendelian genetics.

Mendel's studies has helped us understand the science behind
traits and genes. This information aids in the medical field, giving us the power to
predict the probability of disease.
The genes we inherit are a combination of the genes of both our parents; this is
called inheritance. Each parent passes down one copy of each of their genes to their
children. Which copy of each gene passed along is random, and may be different for
each child. Each child gets a unique combination of each of their parents genes, this
mixing contributes to genetic variation. This is why children resemble both their parents
and each other. Looking farther back in the family tree, the parents DNA came from
their parents, so the children also share DNA with their grandparents, but the amount of
DNA shared is only half as much as they share with each parent.
A pedigree is a diagram that follows a particular phenotype (an observable
expression of an organism's genes) through several generations. Below is a Pedigree
Chart of a family tree representing one trait (eye color). This particular chart follows eye
color. The “P1” indicates the initial parents. “F1” represents their offspring, and

“F2”
represents their offspring’s offspring. The circles are female, the squares are male, and
the red lines represent marriage.