From his first experiments with monohybrid crosses, Mendel formed statistical predictions ... their on genes in the same way as the garden pea plant? The answer to that question is no, but many ...

Keeping the peas. Mendel did not set out to conduct the first well-controlled and brilliantly-designed experiments in genetics. His goal was to create hybrid pea plants and observe the outcome.

He experimented on pea plants in an effort to understand how a parent passed physical traits to its offspring. In one experiment, Mendel crossbred a pea plant with wrinkled seeds and a pea plant ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...

After nine years of crossing and recrossing pea plants in ways that no one had ever done before, Mendel delivered a ... In a spur-of-the-moment experiment, he invented the eraser and gave rubber ...