Mendel and Genetics

• What did Mendel discover

  He helped our understanding of genetics where he learnt that characteristics are not blended during inheritance.
• What was Mendels theory

  He said that characteristics were inherited by units (now known as genes)but the units don't change when passed onto descendants
• What did he view a recessive allele as (although only now know as a recessive allele)

  Characteristics that could be masked and reappear in later generations