Gregor Mendel's Theory Of Heredity

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Heredity was a concept that little was known about before the 20th century. In that era, there were two main concepts that most followed about heredity. First, that heredity occurred within a species, and second, that traits were given directly from parents to offspring. These ideas led people to believe that inheritance was the result of a blend of traits within a fixed, unchanging species. In 1856, Gregor Mendel began his experiments in which he would discover the basic underlying principles of heredity.
In Gregor Mendel’s first experiment, he used pea plants to observe plant hybridization. Mendel chose pea plants due to four main factors: he knew that he would be able to expect segregation of traits among the offspring of the plants, there

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