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Tag: Mendel pea experiment

Taken from the genetic analysis studies of Gregor Mendel, it was all about the inheritance of seven different features in peas, including height, flower color, seed color, and seed shape. To do so, he first established pea lines with two different forms of a feature, such as tall vs. short height. He grew these lines for generations until they were pure-breeding (always produced offspring identical to the parent), then bred them to each other and observed how the traits were inherited. This study is very essential in the advancement of science. And like any other breakthroughs, the lessons that we learned from the past takes us into a much more meaningful understanding of how we could get through things fairly easily.