What makes Gregor Mendel special or important?
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He developed the first scientific method of determing genetics following his work with peas.
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Mendel assumed independent assortment, meaning every trait is inherited independent of any other trait. Linkage on an autosome means that the traits are located close to each other and are usually inherited together.
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The laws of inheritance were derived by Gregor Mendel, a 19th century Austrian monk, who was conducting plant hybridity experiments. Between 1856 and 1863, he cultivated and tested some 28,000 pea plants. His experiments brought forth two generalizations which later became known as Mendel's Laws of Heredity or Mendelian inheritance. These are described in his paper "Experiments on Plant Hybridization" that was read to the Natural History Society of Brno on February 8 and March 8, 1865, and was published in 1866.
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Agostine Monk and Abbot, Gregor Mendel, did more to advance the science of change and evolution with his plant studies.  He's considered the Father of Genetics.  He actually made "intellgent design" in plants possible.\n\nThen there's Father Georges-Henri Lemaître a Roman Catholic priest, honorary prelate, professor of physics and astronomer.  He gave us the Big Bang theory.\n\nIsn't it funny how the actually scientific theories are conjured up by Religious Priests.
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In genetics, the term "recessive gene" refers to an allele that causes a phenotype (visible or detectable characteristic) that is only seen in a homozygous genotype (an organism that has two copies of the same allele). Every person has two copies of every gene, one from mother and one from father. If a genetic trait is recessive, a person needs to inherit two copies of the gene for the trait to be expressed. Thus, both parents have to be carriers of a recessive trait in order for a child to express that trait. If both parents are carriers, there is a 25% chance with each child to show the recessive trait.\n\nThe term "recessive gene" is part of the laws of Mendelian inheritance created by Gregor Mendel. Examples of recessive genes in Mendel's famous pea plant experiments include those that determine the color and shape of seed pods, and plant height.
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There are a couple of facets to an answer to this question.\n\nThe first is hard to explain and if you are interested email me and I will try.\n\nSecondly it is our educational background and emphasis. Next to G-d the most important thing in a typical Jewish family is education. For non-observant Jews education is the most important thing. 85% of College-age Jews are in College. Pick a Ivory league School and check the Jewish Population (Usually about 27% of enrollment) then consider that there are only 5.5 million Jews (About 2% of the population) in the USA.\n\nFYI: 27% of Nobel Prizes won by Americans were won by Jews.
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It all depends on the person. Whats special for them.
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Yes, Gregor Mendell is considered to be Father of Genetics.  No, charles Darwin wrote his book without knowing what Mendell had discovered.
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If you like intensive amounts of data structure and statistics and all that, this would be the perfect career for you. \n\nIf what Mendel(who studied genetics in the 1800s) did with statistics on peas excites you, go right on ahead.\n\nBut if you're one of those guys who wants immediate answers, this is not the career for you. Remember, statistics need a LOT of data.
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Well, isn't that special?
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Hi. First off, its "deScent with modification".\nThat was Darwin's term for what is now known as genetic variability in a population, and a stage of his proposed evolutionary mechanism, natural selection.\nHe did not have the genetic background to explain the variations that he saw generation after generation (Mendel's works had been ignored at the time), but he noticed that in every new generation, the individuals showed varied characteristics: some traits where similar to their parents, but others were novel or maybe similar to those of older ancestors. \nThese variations occur because of 1) spontaneous mutations in the parental gametes; 2) recombination between homologous chromosomes during gamete formation (crossing over); 3) the combination of the parents' genotypes to form the genotype of the offspring (this is not strictly new material, only a new combination of preexisting ones).\n\nOnce there is a new generation of individuals that are growing and living together, some of those characteristics may result in better adjustment to the environment. The individuals with those "adaptively advantageous" traits will have higher probabilities of growing, maturing and reproducing more, with respect to other individuals. \nIf those advantageous characteristics are heritable, that is, if they are determined by the individual's combination of alleles (=the two versions of the same gene in each of us), when the individual is able to "pass them on" to more descendants those alleles will spread in the population, and eventually be present in most individuals. This, in a nutshell, is natural selection. NS leads to gradual adjustment of the population with respect to its environment.\nFrom a population genetics perspective, evolution is defined as _the change in allele frequencies_; thus, "descent with modification", coupled with evolutionary factors, leads to evolution of the population. \nIn addition to mutation and natural selection, this change in allele frequencies may be occasioned by migration (genetic flux among different populations), genetic drift (a random process) and selective mating (which strictly speaking only alters the proportion of combinations, but does not produce new material).\n\nSorry for the lengthy answer, but evolutionary processes need a little context to be understood. Good luck with your explanation!
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Although this seems to be a problem about Gregor Mendel and his tall and dwarf pea plants, once it is realised that the probability of any child being short is 1/2, it simplifies to being the simpler and more familiar one of tossing a coin, heads or tails, n times\n\nIt would have produced more interesting results perhaps if the parents were Aa and Aa and three children out of four were therefore tall and we had looked at grandchildren (offspring of children who are one quarter AA, one half Aa and one quarter aa, eg if they intermarry with another such distribution among their partners.) However ...\n\n(i) is imprecisely worded. How big is the family?\n\nIf there is one child, the chance of that child being short is  1/2\n\nIf there are two children, the chance that both are tall is 1/4 and the chance that at least one child is short is 3/4. (Of one being short is 1/2 and of both being short is a quarter.)\n\nIf there are three children, the chance that all three are tall is 1/8 and the chance that at least one child is short is 7/8 (of one being short: 3/8, of two being short also 3/8, of all three being short: 1/8).\n\nWith 4 children, the chance of at least 1 being short is 15/16, of 1  being short is 4/16 or 1/4; of 2 being short is 6/16 or 3/8; of 3   being short is 4/16 or 1/4; of all 4 being short is 1/16;\n\nOne just reads across successive lines of Pascal's Triangle.\n\n(ii) the answer to this is buried in the above: 3/8ths\n\n(iii) again, imprecisely phrased. Does "such families" refer back to (i) or to (ii)? Taking it to mean families of four children, there is one chance in 16 of 4 tall children, 4 chances in 16 of 3 tall children, 6 chances in 16 of 2 tall children, 4 chances in 16 of 1 tall child and 1 chance in 16 of 0 tall children.\n\nIn 16 such families, there are 64 children and unsurprisingly 32 are tall\n(1 x 4) + (4 x 3) + (6 x 2) + (4 x 1) + 0\n\nwith an average number of 2 tall children per family, and as you would expect an average number of 2 short children per family, too.\n\n(iv) 256 = 16 squared and so the expectation is 16 families out of 256 will have 4 tall children, given 1 family in 16 has this particular expectation.
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http://anthro.palomar.edu/mendel/mendel_2.htm
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Baseball, Bridges, Architecture, and MUCH, MUCH, MORE!\n\nQuadratics are extremely important! They ARE PRAGMATIC!
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There is no "versus". Mendelian Genetics explained heredity years before when people had funny ideas about inheritance (there was one which said only the father contributed to the children's character and another which said it was the mum!). Biotechnology is using this knowledge as well as knowledge from diverse fields such as Chemistry, Physics, Statistics etc. to modify nature a little for man's benefit. Why the  "versus" question? Both work in tandem.
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gregor johann mendel for genetics\ntheory of evolution by charles darwin
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mendel tested genes in peas. he cross bred smooth and wrinkled peas and found that all the offspring grew smooth. then he bred the offspring and they grew some smooth and some wrikled at a ratio of 3:1.\nthis maade him think about dominance, in this case, the smooth allele was dominant to the wrinkled allele. he also did work on smooth gen peas and wrinkled yellow peas. When he bred these, he found a ratio of 9(sreen smooth):3(green wrinlked):3(yellow smooth):1(yellow winkled). this showeed him that the green and smooth alleles were dominant to yellow and wrinkled.\nhe deided that the rules of breeding ratios would either be 9:3:3:1,3:1,2:1, or 1:1 when dealing with dominance