Mendels Inheritance Experiment. A class practical was carried out on purple fruit maize cobs and yellow fruit maze cobs where the individual kernels (fruits) were able to be identified

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Mendel's Inheritance

Gregor Mendel, who is known as the father of modern genetics; Gregor Mendel carried out most of his work at a monastery where he spent most of his time to study variation in plants during this work he conducted a study in the monastery's garden, Mendel cultivated and tested around 29,000 pea plants.

This study carried out on 29,000 pea plants showed that one in four pea plants had purebred recessive alleles, two out of four were hybrid and one out of four were purebred dominant; his experiments led him to make two generalizations which came to be the law of segregation and the law of independent assortment which later became known as Mendel's laws of inheritance.

Gregor Mendel's work studied and researched Monohybrid inheritance, Monohybrid inheritance is the inheritance of a single characteristic, the different forms of the characteristic are usually controlled by different alleles of the same gene; for example a monohybrid cross between two pure breeding plants (homozygous for their respective traits), one with yellow seeds (the dominant trait) and one with green seeds (the recessive trait), would be expected to produce an F1 (first) generation with only yellow seeds