The Work of Mendel

Question 1

Who was Gregor Mendel?

Answer 1

Australian monk who trained in mathematics and natural history at the University of Vienna.

Question 2

What did he do on his garden plot?

Answer 2

In his garden plot at the monastery Mendel noted how characteristics in plants were passed on from one generation to the next.

Question 3

When was his research published?

Answer 3

In 1866 and eventually became the foundation of modern genetics.

Question 4

What are Mendel’s 3 important conclusions?

Answer 4

Characteristics is plants are determined by hereditary units.
Hereditary units passed on from both parents, 1 unit from each parent.
Hereditary units can be dominant or recessive.

Question 5

What are the hereditary units?

Answer 5

Genes.

In Mendel’s time nobody new anything about genes or DNA, significance of his work was not realised until his death.