Table of Contents
Table of Contents
- Gregor Mendel
- Chromosomes
- Summary
- Did You Know?
- What’s Next?
In the last segment of the chapter ‘Heredity and Evolution’, we got ourselves introduced to heredity. In this segment, let us learn about Gregor Mendel and study the structure of a chromosome.
Who was Gregor Mendel?
- In a monastery, in Austria, there was a monk named Gregor Mendel. He was the pioneer of genetic studies who studied pea plants.
- In the garden of the monastery, he planted several pea plants and matched different characteristics to study them.
- The pea plants had many variations like different seed colours and length of the plant.
- After many years, he concluded several things about the pea plants.
- In the year 1865, he wrote his paper titled Experiments in Plant Hybridization.
- Mendel realized that there was a certain pattern of plant reproduction in all his experiments. These observations later become his famous laws.
What are chromosomes?
Cell, nucleus, chromosomes and DNA
