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e Inheritance of Anthocyanin using Mendelian Laws in Brassica rapa
Sarah Railsback

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Gregor Mendel had a huge impact on the discovery of genetics. It is believed that his interest to explore genetics was greatly influenced by Joseph Koelreuter. Koelrueter observed that not all hybrids can reproduce, and that when mated some of the hybrids look like the parents, and some looked like a different species. This intrigued Mendel. Mendel then began to study the inheritance patterns from pea plants. He concluded that traits were not blended that they remain distinct from one another when being passed form generation to generation. Plants, like the Brassica rapa, are very easy to grow, grow very quickly, have distinct observable characteristics, the strains …show more content…

Focusing on the F2 generation during this experiment is very important because the recessive trait appears as a predictable ratio. This shows that the F1 generation plant cross fertilized with another F1 generation plant will produce ¾ tall plants and ¼ short plants. In Genetics, a phenotype is an observable characteristic of a trait, and a genotype is the genetic make-up of a trait. Throughout his research he found that unit factors exist in pairs, within a pair of unit factors one of them is dominant and one is recessive. Unit factors are pairs of genes that determine the outcome of the offspring being produced. He also proposed the law of segregation stating that allele pairs segregate during gamete formation, and randomly unite at fertilization. After discovering the law of segregation he was also able to create the law of

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