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Describe Mendel’s conclusions about how traits are passed from generation to generation.
To describe: The conclusion of Mendel about the inheritance of traits over several generations.
Introduction: Inheritance is a mechanism in which traits of the parents transfer into the offsprings of the next generation. Gregor Mendel was a monk, and he discovered three laws that describe the inheritance of factors from parents to offsprings.
Explanation of Solution
Gregor Mendel conducted experiments for many years using pea plants. Mendel analyzed his results quantitively and concluded that traits are transferred from one generation to another generation.
According to Mendel's conclusion, a pair of factors control the expression of a trait (a term that was used by Mendel for genes), and each factor of the pair segregate from each other during gamete formation. He found the results in 1866, but it was not known to other scientists because of the lack of mode of communication. He published his findings around 1900 and then his work was appreciated.
Thus, Mendel concluded that in pea plants, a pair of factors control the expression of the traits because one factor gets segregated from another factor during gamete formation.
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