PPT-Chapter 14 – Mendel and the gene idea

1 Gregor mendel Gregor Mendel is the father of genetics He came up with the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment In 1857 he began breeding garden peas to study inheritance He was also a monk . Mendel and the Idea of the Gene. You Must Know. Terms associated with genetics problems: P, F1, F2, dominant, recessive, homozygous, heterozygous, character, trait, true breeding, hybridization, test cross, phenotype, and genotype.. Chapter 10 Section 1. Mendel’s Experiment. In the mid 19. th. century, a monk named Mendel studied how traits are passed from one generation to another.. Experimented on . garden peas. .. .  green pea plants reproduce sexually (produce gametes). Heredity. The. passing of parents characteristics onto the offspring. Genetics is the branch of biology that studies heredity. Grego. r Mendel. Considered the father of genetics. Was an Austrian. monk that used pea plants to study heredity. Trait. a characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes. . Offspring. The product of reproduction; a new organism produced by one or more parents (ex. Human baby). Chromosome. QOD . 1/23/13- TRUE OR FALSE? . Girls . inherit more traits from their mother than their father. You . have inherited traits that are not apparent. Color . blindness is more common in males than females. A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes is called what?. A TRAIT. The passing of traits from parents to offspring is called what?. HEREDITY. 2. The scientific study of heredity is called what?. The . Work of . Gregor. Mendel. Genetics. :. The scientific study of heredity. (Is now at the core of a revolution in understanding biology.). Gregor. Mendel. : Was an Austrian Monk, who was in charge of the monastery garden. He was the first person to trace the characteristics of successive generations of a living thing (pea plants).. Genetics. 11-1.  The Work of . Gregor. Mendel. Bellwork. : . Mon. . Jan. . 9. , 2017. Do you think that all zebra have the same stripe patterns?. What might affect the stripe pattern?. Heredity and genes!!!!. SC STANDARD B 4:. The student will understand the molecular basis of heredity.. Essential Question. How does segregation of alleles contribute to genetic variation?. Origins of Hereditary Science. Mendel” Breeding Experiments. 1800’s. by an . Austrian botanist monk . named . Gregor. Mendel. . Because his work laid the foundation to the study of heredity, . Mendel is referred to as “The Father of Genetics.”. Mendel’ Pea Plants. Draw 8 boxes on your paper. Gene regulation accounts for some of the phenotypic differences between organisms with similar genes.. 2005-2006. Gene regulation in bacteria. Control of gene expression enables individual bacteria to adjust their metabolism to environmental change. (And why was his work so important?). Gregor. Mendel. Gregor. Mendel was a monk who lived in the 1800s. Mendel’s Mind Wandered…. Mendel wondered how the same species of plants could have different characteristics. pea plants . and formed the foundation for . genetics. . He is called the . Father of Genetics.. Why did he study pea plants?. The traits were in . two forms. only. The pea plants produced . Section 12.1. Genetics. – study of heredity; how traits are passed from parents to offspring. Gregor. Mendel. “Father of Genetics”. History of. Lived in a monastery in Austria in 1842. In 1851, moved to the University of Vienna where he studied science and mathematics.