1. Introduction to Genetics
Chapter 11

2. The Work of Gregor Mendel
Chpater 11 Section 1

3. Learning Objectives

4. Key Terms

5. Genetics Genetics: Scientific study of heredity
Heredity: Passing of traits from parents to offspring
Trait: Each different form of a characteristic
Genetics was founded with the work of Gregor Mendel

6. Gregor Mendel’s Peas Gregor Mendel Priest, Scientist, Mathematician
Worked in Monastery and Taught High School
In charge of the Monastery Garden
His work in the garden changed biology forever
Considered the Father of Genetics

7. Mendel’s Garden Mendel was master of the monastery garden
Mendel planted two stock of peas in two different areas-----one area always producing tall pea plants and another area only short plants
Mendel wanted to explain why this is-----ANY IDEAS?

8. Mendel’s Garden
The pea plants stayed all tall or all short because they bred with only themselves
We call this True-Breeding
Meaning that plants are allowed to self-pollinate and produce offspring identical to ones self
This process is called fertilization
When male and female reproductive cells join
Two types of fertilization
Self-pollination
Cross-pollination

9. Mendel’s peas cont.
Collected seeds from his pea plants and recorded each plant’s traits and seeds
Through this, Mendel saw variation in the characteristics of pea plants

10. Mendel’s Garden Peas
Mendel observed seven characteristics of pea plants
A characteristic is a heritable feature
A trait is a specific characteristic, such as seed color or plant height, that varies from one individual to another
The characteristics that Mendel observed were:
Plant Height (long and short)
Flower Position along stem (axial and terminal)
Pod Color (green and yellow)
Pod Appearance (Inflated and constricted)
Seed texture (round and wrinkled)
Seed Color (yellow and green)
Flower Color (purple and white)

12. Mendel’s Experiments
Problem: Mendel wondered if he could produce short plants from tall plants.
Procedure 1: Mendel crossed 2 tall purebred pea plants 30 times
Purebred: offspring of many generations that have the same trait
Result: ALL TALL PLANTS

13. Mendel’s Experiment
Procedure 2: Mendel decided lets cross one purebred tall plant from one pea stock with a purebred short plant from another pea stock and did this 30 times
Offspring of crosses between parents with different traits are called hybrids.
Result: All Tall Plants!!!!!!!!
Mendel liked where he was going with this and called this the F1 Generation=First Filial Generation
He also called the two original plants in this cross (1 tall and 1 short) the P generation (Parental Generation)
Filius- “Son” and Filia “Daughter”

14. Mendel’s Experiment
Procedure 3: Lets cross two of the F1 generation (tall) pea plants and see if we can get a short plant and did this 28 times
Result: For every four plants, 3 were tall and 1 was short!!!!!!!!
Why did this occur??????

15. Support for Mendel’s Conclusions
Factors that Mendel studied are called alleles, or alternate forms of a gene.
One allele from each trait is passed from each parent to their offspring.
Genes determine traits

16. Mendel’s Results and Characteristics
Mendel concluded that inherited characteristics are controlled by factors that occur in plants
In his experiments on pea plants, one factor in a pair masked the other.
Trait that masked the other was called the dominant trait
Trait that was masked was called the recessive trait

17. Alleles Every individual has 2 alleles for every trait
One from each parent
Dominant alleles for a trait will always show that trait
Recessive alleles will exhibit that trait only when the dominant allele is not present
Symbols:
Dominant=Capital Letter (T, R, B)
Recessive=Lower Case Letter (t, r, b)
NOTE: Does not matter what letter you chose to represent a trait as long as you use the same letter for dominant and recessive

18. Mendel’s Methods
Pollination-occurs when pollen grains produced in the male anthers are transferred to the female stigma.
Mendel used cross-pollination techniques in which pollen is transferred between flowers of two different plants.
Self-pollination was prevented by removing all of the anthers from the flowers of a plant.

19. Mendel’s Experiments

20. Law of Segregation
That a pair of factors is segregated, or separated, during the formation of gametes

21. Law of Independent Assortment
Factors of individual characteristics are distributed to gametes independent of one another.
Gamete are sex cells created from the crosses.
The law of independent assortment is observed only for genes that are located on separate chromosomes or are far apart on the same chromosome.

22. Independent Assortment