English National Curriculum - Science Science

11. Explore Mendel

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Describe how the work of Gregor Mendel led to understanding of genetics

Explain why the importance of Mendel's discovery was not recognised until after his death

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Gregor Mendel

Augustinian botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics

descendant

one originating from an ancestral stock or source

crossbred

an organism with purebred parents of two different breeds, varieties, or populations

homozygous

a genetic condition where an individual inherits the same alleles for a particular gene from both parents

generation

all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively

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