Life+Changes.+Inheritance.+Gregor+Mendel

{$page} include component="page" wikiName="wikids" page="_menuoptions" < Prev + More > Next include component="page" wikiName="wikids" page="_close" Gregor Mendel lived from 1822 to 1884. He is famous for what he found out.

He found that when living things make their young, the young __inherit__ from their parents. This means that they 'get things' like their colour or shape or size from their parents.

Mendel did a lot of testing with peas. He grew two sorts of peas, green ones and yellow ones.

Next, he took pollen from the flowers of the 'yellow pea' plants and pollinated the flowers of the 'green pea' plants. He also pollinated the flowers of the 'green-pea' plants with pollen from the 'yellow-pea' plants.

When the all the flowers made pea-pods, __all the peas inside were yellow__! What happened next is very interesting...