mendel's contributions

• What did Mendel investigate?

  Pea plant seed colours and purple vs white flowers.
• What was good about Mendel's investigation?

  He used a large sample making it valid and repeatable.
• What was Mendel's conclusions?

  • Inheritance of each characteristic is determined by 'units' that are passed on to descendants unchanged.
  • Each plant had factors that were controlled by a particular characteristic - one was dominant and one was recessive.
  • One of the factors, at random, would go into a gamete.