is for Allele

Alleles are represented by letters. A capital letter means you have a dominant allele while a lowercase letter means you have a recessive allele. Mendel is the finder of alleles.

is for Breeding

Mendel controlled the breeding of his pea plants and their inheritance of traits. He transferred pollen from the anthers of a plant to the stigma of another.

is for Cross- pollination

Cross pollination is the process that occurs between one flower to another. Insects are the main transfer source. Mendel cross pollinated pairs of plants that were true breeding for contrasting traits of a single characteristic.

is for Dominant

Dominants in genetics describes if an allele is fully expressed whenever the allele is present in an individual chromosome. When a allele is dominant the letter that are representing it will be capitalized.

is for Experiments

Mendel studied each characteristics and its contrasting traits individually. He ran multiple experiments on pea plants by self pollinating and cross pollinating them.

is for F1 Generation

F1 generation is the first generation resulting immediately from the cross first set of parents. Mendel allowed flowers in this generation to self pollinate and collected the seeds.

is for Genetics

Genetics is the field of biology devoted to understanding characteristics are transmitted from parents to offspring. Mendel ran experiments on the genetics that have been resulted after each one.

is for Heredity

Mendel's knowledge of statistics later proved valuable in his research which is the transmission of characteristics from parents to offspring.

is for Inherited

Mendel had an assumption that each trait was inherited by means of a separate factor. When an offspring is born it inherits traits from both mother and father.

is for Jump

Genes have the ability to jump or move to a new place on a chromosome or to a new chromosome in general.Dissociators could jump to new chromosomal locations when signaled by activators.

is for Knowledge

Mendel was always using his knowledge about the statistics to analyze his observations. Mendel builds his knowledge after every experiment he has ever ran. He learned something new all the time.

is for Law of Segregation

Mendel's law that states that the pairs of homologous chromosomes separate in meiosis so that only one of the chromosomes from each pair is present in each gametes.

is for Molecular Genetics

Molecular Genetics is the study of structure of nucleic acids and the function and regulations of genes. Almost all of Mendel's findings agree with what biologists now know about Molecular Genetics.

is for Nondisjuction

Nondisjunction is the failure of one or more homologous pairs to separate properly during meiosis.

is for Offspring

Offspring is the result from the parents. The offspring of Mendel's experiments was the pea plants.

is for P Generation

The P Generation is the Parental Generation, which is the first two individual that mate in a genetic cross. Mendel cross-pollinated two pairs of plants that were true-breeding for contrasting traits of a single characteristic.