Gregory Mendel Obituary
On January 6, 1884, Gregor Johann Mendel, 62, passed away, in Brno, Czechia, this is where his funeral
was held and where he was buried. He was born on July 20, 1822, in Austria to Anton Mendel and
Rosine Mendel. He had two sisters, Veronica and Theresia Mendel, he had no wife or children, so there
are no relatives of his still living today. Gregor Mendel, known formally as the "Father of modern
genetics," was an Austrian monk who, through experiments in his garden, discovered the fundamental
concepts of heredity, the transfer of genetic influences from parent to offspring. Since the peas were
cheap, simple to obtain, and can either self-pollinate or cross-pollinate, Mendel selected pea plants.
He first began this experiment with two pure parental lines, which he had been developing for two years
to make sure they were pure. Next Mendel made the dihybrid cross to obtain the generation F2 by selfselfing the dihybrid F1 (The four female gametic types were fertilized randomly by the four male gametic
types to obtain the F2, forming a zygote). The first subsidiary generation was F1 and the second
subsidiary generation was F2. Mendel concluded that F1 plants can generate both the purple phenotype
and the white phenotype from their parents and that these skills are preserved and passed on to future
generations. Mendel has pollinated pea plants with pollen from other plants with different features,
such as height, texture of the seed and color of the seed.
He made some very significant discoveries during Mendel's long time on this Planet. 1. The independent
assortment law; unrelated or distantly related segregating gene pairs assort separately at meiosis,
meaning characteristics are transferred independently to offspring by gametes. 2. The rule of
segregation; gene pair members segregate equally into gametes, or eggs and sperm, resulting in each
parent receiving one from the offspring. 3. Mendel demonstrated that one phenotype's dominance over
another is simply due to one member of a gene pair's dominance over the other. For Mendel You can
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