mendel and his wittle peas

• What plan did Mendel experiment with?

  Mendel experimented with the pea plant.
• Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk who studied the inheritance of traits in pea plants.
• Name the three important conclusions Mendel reached.

  Characteristics in plants are determined by hereditary units

  Hereditary units are passed onto offspring unchanged from both parents

  Hereditary units can be dominant or recessive, and dominant always wins
• People didn't like Mendel, they thought he was a little bit crazy (like most scientists tbh)
• People had no idea about genes, DNA and chromosomes back in the day so they thought he was making shiz up
• No one liked Mendel until he DIED
• After Mendel died, people started to realise that what he said might actually be true
• Mendel paved the way for scientists to understand genes chromosomes and all that stuff