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Mendel’s Legacy: The Father of Modern Genetics

Explore Gregor Mendel's groundbreaking work with peas and mice that led to the foundation of genetics. Learn his experiment procedure, inheritance laws, and genetic terms like homozygous and heterozygous.

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Mendel’s Legacy: The Father of Modern Genetics

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  1. MENDEL’S LEGACY CH. 9

  2. Gregor Mendel (1823-1884) The Father of Modern Genetics!

  3. Mendel taught natural science to High School Students. • Once: he crossed peas and mice of different varieties “for the fun of the thing”

  4. He determined several “laws” of inheritance.... • Mendel’s work became the foundation for Modern Genetics.

  5. Mendel’s peas • MENDEL chose a common garden pea (Pisum) for his first experiments in hybridization

  6. Mendel’s Procedure • Step ONE: find plants that are “pure” for one trait (like height). • Call them: P1

  7. Step TWO: take opposites for the trait (like tall X short) & cross pollinate/fertilize

  8. Step 3: grow offspring and record results. (F1 = filial = offspring)

  9. Step 4: Allow self-pollination & grow the grandchildren of P1. Call this group F2. Record results.

  10. P1 = HH (tall) X hh (short) • Results: All F1 grew tall! • F1 X F1 = F2 • Results, 3/4th peas were tall, 1/4th peas were short!

  11. Mendel discovered... • ...some traits are “masked”...they are RECESSIVE and may skip generations. • ...some traits are DOMINANT...they occur often in the population.

  12. ...traits are determined by a pair of factors. • Alleles

  13. Mendel determined... • The pair of “factors” are sorted independently of each other. • These factors are separated when the gametes are formed.

  14. HOW TO PLAY GENETICS “GAMES” • Traits are expressed as letters of the alphabet. • HH or hh • Capital letters denote dominant traits

  15. HH or hh are pure strains. They are called HOMOZYGOUS • Hh are mixed strains....carriers of the recessive gene, but do not look recessive. They are called HETEROZYGOUS

  16. EXAMPLES • H = TALL • h = short • HH = homozygous tall • hh = homozygous short • Hh = heterozygous tall

  17. More vocabulary.... • genotype = the letters we use to express traits = genetic makeup • phenotype = what something looks like.

  18. Phenotypes fat pod, smooth peas

  19. or... • skinny pods, wrinkled peas

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