HEREDITY 2 - MENDEL'S CONTRIBUTION

BIOLOGY SSS 3 FIRST TERM

WEEK SIX

HEREDITY 2 - MENDEL'S CONTRIBUTION

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

1. Explain Mendel's work to heredity
2. Enumerate the principles of heredity
3. 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:

 

1. 1. The Law of Segregation: Each inherited…