Gregor Mendel's Hypothesis

Gregor Mendel -

Mendel wrote that genes are passed from parents to their children and can produce the same physical characteristics as the parents.
Gregor Mendel used pea plants Pisum sativum to experiment with. He used these dure to the contrasting physical features he observed. He found that the plants were either tall or short (dwarf); flower was axial or terminal; purple of white flowers; yellow seed or green seed; round seed or wrinkled seed; green pod or yellow pod; inflated or constricted pod. He saw mathematical patterns emerge when he cross-fertilized the plants over many generations.
He began writing about his hypothesis/ idea in 1864-65, and published the results in 1866. It was not until 1900 that his published findings were

perceived as a way to explain the basis of inheritance. By 1910 his findings,
Mendelian inheritance, was accepted as the basic model for the inheritance in plants and animals.
After Mendel completed his experiments, how found that all living organisms have pairs of genes, one received by each parent. The genes are in the same position for their matching chromosomes, called a ‘homologous pair’. The alternate form of gene on chromosomes are called ‘alleles’. He also discovered that each species has a set number of chromosomes (‘karyotype’). He found that the chromosomes by the parents have dominant and recessive characteristics that the next generation contains.
Mendel was very isolated from people around him, possibly due to him being a monk, this lead him to complete these experiments and results as an individual scientist.