Mendel's Law of Segregation

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Laura Mendel: The Father of Genetics Gregor Mendel was a very part in "the realisations of genetic inheritance" yet was only taught agricultural training with basic education. He later entered the Augustinian Monastery in 1843 when after 3 years of studying, he went to the University of Vienna where he learnt the causes of variation in plants. Mendel observed several characteristics of garden peas which included the plant height, the seed colour/shape and whether it wa smooth or rough/wrinkled, seed's skins colour, the pod shape and colour and flower "distribution" There are records of his experiments of when he first reported his findings at a meeting of the Brunn Natural History Society. The results of his work were then published in 1866. Mendel's Law of Segregation Mendel's Law of Segregation stated that the members of a pair of "homologous chromosomes segregate during meiosis and is distributed to different gametes." This prediction was divided into four main ideas. The first idea was that different versions of genes caused changes in the "inherited characters." The alleles would create different variations in inherited characters. The second idea was that for every character, an organism inherits two genes, one for each parent. Therefore, a "homologous loci" could posibly have matching alleles, as in the "true-breeding plants" of Mendel's P generation (parental). If the alleles didn't match or were different, then they would be F hybrids. The third idea proves that if the two alleles are different, the recessive allele will have no affect on the organism's appearance. So an F hybrid plant that has purple flowers, the dominant allele will be the purple-color allele and the recessive allele would be the white-color allele. The two genes for each character split/divide during the production of the gamete. Also, every member of a

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