HEREDITY 2 - MENDEL'S CONTRIBUTION
BIOLOGY SSS 3 FIRST TERM
WEEK SIX
HEREDITY 2 - MENDEL'S CONTRIBUTION
PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE
Students should be able to;
- Explain Mendel's work to heredity
- Enumerate the principles of heredity
- Discuss the general importance of heredity
CONTENT
Johann Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
Father of Genetics
Gregor Mendel, through his work on pea plants, discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent. Mendel tracked the segregation of parental genes and their appearance in the offspring as dominant or recessive traits. He recognized the mathematical patterns of inheritance from one generation to the next. Mendel's Laws of Heredity are usually stated as:
- The Law of Segregation: Each inherited trait is defined by a gene pair. Parental genes.... View More
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