Gregor Mendel: The Father of Genetics
Dexter Valley
Nov/10/13
Bio/9:30
Mrs.Wynder
The king of genes Gregor Mendel was raised in the farming and agriculture industrial. Both of his parents were farmers. Even though his parents expected him to become a farmer. Mendel did not go down that path; instead he became a member of the Augustine Monastery. He was a teacher of science and physics and he was able to live at the chapel for free. While living there he started breeding mice; however a member of the Augustine Monastery felt uncomfortable with Mendel breeding activities. So he complained to the Bishop and requested that Mendel discontinue his research. Instead of being punished; Mendel was sent off to college because the bishop saw that he had potential.
Bishop had so much faith in Mendel that he paid for Mendel school fees. Mendel was able to go to school for two years for free. Through out those two years he met some wonderful people and learned some extraordinaire things. Once college was over Mendel returned back to the chapel and started his studies. He started breeding peas; this was not a walk in the park. He planted multiple peas to find different outcomes. Through this study he was able to discover that characteristics could be transferred from one pea to another by dominant and recessive genes.
After successfully figuring out how heredity works; Mendel decided to publish his work. However Mendel was ahead of his time and scientists were too naïve to listen to his theory because they felt they knew everything about heredity. However once Mendel passed away scientist started to realize that Mendel pea method was legitimate. That recessive and dominant gene does play an important role and does determine the outcome of the offspring characteristics and traits. So the science committee made a mutual decision to make Mendel the father of Genetics.
Nov/10/13
Bio/9:30
Mrs.Wynder
The king of genes Gregor Mendel was raised in the farming and agriculture industrial. Both of his parents were farmers. Even though his parents expected him to become a farmer. Mendel did not go down that path; instead he became a member of the Augustine Monastery. He was a teacher of science and physics and he was able to live at the chapel for free. While living there he started breeding mice; however a member of the Augustine Monastery felt uncomfortable with Mendel breeding activities. So he complained to the Bishop and requested that Mendel discontinue his research. Instead of being punished; Mendel was sent off to college because the bishop saw that he had potential.
Bishop had so much faith in Mendel that he paid for Mendel school fees. Mendel was able to go to school for two years for free. Through out those two years he met some wonderful people and learned some extraordinaire things. Once college was over Mendel returned back to the chapel and started his studies. He started breeding peas; this was not a walk in the park. He planted multiple peas to find different outcomes. Through this study he was able to discover that characteristics could be transferred from one pea to another by dominant and recessive genes.
After successfully figuring out how heredity works; Mendel decided to publish his work. However Mendel was ahead of his time and scientists were too naïve to listen to his theory because they felt they knew everything about heredity. However once Mendel passed away scientist started to realize that Mendel pea method was legitimate. That recessive and dominant gene does play an important role and does determine the outcome of the offspring characteristics and traits. So the science committee made a mutual decision to make Mendel the father of Genetics.