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How Did Gregor Mendel Use Peas

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Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, is known for the studies he did on garden peas to better understand heredity. Interestingly enough, his work wasn’t discovered until 1900, thirty four years after it was published, around the time that the microscope was upgraded. He discovered that genes are inherited from each parent, they come in pairs, and noticed the patterns from each generation. When choosing an organism to follow, he chose peas due to how fast they reproduce and how easily. The traits he followed were simple appearances like wrinkles, roundness, and color. By breeding the same pea plants, he concluded that they were true-breeding for that particular trait since the results were always the same as the superior’s. After concluding
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