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During his genetics experiments, Mendel made 287 crosses between 70 different types of pea plants. To do this, he needed about 28,000 pea plants.
Date of Birth: July 22, 1822
Died: January 6, 1884
Claim to fame: discovered the basic laws of genetics through experiments with pea plants
Known for: breeding thousands of pea plants and observing how parent plants' characteristics are passed on from generation to generation
Significance: Mendel's experiments started the science of genetics
During his experiments, how many pea plants did Mendel use?
Why did Gregor Mendel choose pea plants to study heredity?
pea plants are fun to play with
pea plants make delicious soup
pea plants come in many varieties
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Pea plants are useful for studying heredity because they reproduce quickly and come in lots of varieties.
According to Mendel's experiments, if you cross a tall pea plant with a short one, some of the pea "children" will be of medium height.
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Mendel discovered that pea "children" are either short OR tall, not in-between. This is because the tallness gene is dominant over the dwarf gene.
As soon as Mendel's report on plant genetics was published in 1865, he became a world-famous scientist.
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When Mendel was alive, his research went mostly unnoticed. But in 1900, 16 years after he died, several scientists rediscovered his work.