Gregory Mendel

 Gregory Mendel

We learn from Gregory Mendel that he was a Christian monk who was able to discover knowledge of the study of Genetics. While attending to his studies and devotion to the worship of GOD Almighty, Gregory Mendel was able to describe through the studying of peas that there were genetic differences in the plants. In the monastery, Gregory Mendel was able to observe garden plants and attempted to reason the genetic variabilities between plants. Gregory Mendel was able to discover that there are dominant and recessive traits that describe how a specific plant will grow and develop. Gregory Mendel was able to describe that parent plants were able to pass on to their offspring specific genetic traits.

Gregory Mendel described that garden plants including peas were able to vary genetically between each other. He was able to describe that there were two specific types of plants produced. There were the round and green pea plants and shrivelled and green peas. We learn that Gregory Mendel was able to deduce that the dominant genes of roundness and green peas was predominant with seventy five percent of the peas being round and green.

Gregory Mendel deduced that the other twenty five percent of the peas were green and shrivelled. This describes that the peas were of two specific gene traits. There was the color green and the characteristic of the pea being round or shrivelled. We learn that this described only two specific traits. Gregory Mendel helped give understanding concerning the Punnet squares that allow for us to know how the specific cross polination of different plants can lead to different genotypes (genetic make up) and phenotypes (outward visible qualities). We learn that a match between a dominant recessive trait (Rr) with another dominant recessive trait (Rr) leads to two different possible visible traits.

We learn that Gregory Mendel described that there could be multiple traits that can be observed. In another scenario, there were pea plants that were able to produce green round peas, green shriveled peas, yellow round peas, or yellow shriveled peas. This understanding of genetics allowed us to understand observable genetic traits that can be explained by science including reasoning why some individuals have widow's peaks and others do not, differences in eye color, and even incidence of diseases such as Tay Sach's disease or auto-immune diseases such as Lupus. With Gregory Mendel's knowledge of genetics, we are able to understand the importance of science and also integrity being able to understand that scientific knowledge can be used to help instead of being misused and misapplied. We can persevere being grateful for scientific knowledge that prevents us from being arrogant and irresponsible.