Mendel’s Laws

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Gregor Mendel’s Laws
Gregor Mendel was an Australian monk and scientist who worked on scientific discoveries in the mid nineteenth century. Mendel is well known for creating the science of genetics, he is referred to as the father of Genetics. Gregor Mendel in his work he used a plea plant and discovered the three fundamental laws of inheritance. Below are the Gregor Mendel laws of inheritance.
The Law of Dominance
The appearance of a trait that is always seeing is said to be the dominant trait. The relationship between two alleles is referred to as dominance (Schwarzbach and Erik 45). When an offspring inherits two alleles each one from the two parents the most visible trait is considered as the dominant trait. According to Mendel when one parent has two copies of recessive allele and the other have two copies of the dominant allele the offspring will inherit a genotype (Aa) and the dominant phenotype will be displayed.( Kampourakis and Kostas 320)
The Law of Segregation
For a certain gene a parent may have two distinct alleles, where each exists in a given copy of chromosome. During meiosis they is the separation of the two alleles where the two copies of the chromosomes are separated other and as a result they is segregation of the two alleles located on the two chromosomes, the process happens during the two cell division phase of meiosis.
The Law of Independent Assortment
During the second division of meiosis the alleles segregate to form two daughter cells.

The process doesn’t affect how other alleles segregate hence different traits will be inherited independently. According to Mendel genes reside from different chromosomes where during meiosis they are assorted independently into daughter cells (Kampourakis and Kostas 294).
In conclusion Gregor Mendel in his laws about inheritance explained the whole process of trait heredity from the two parents to the offspring and that’s makes him the foundation of science in genetics.
Works Cited
Kampourakis, Kostas. “Mendel and the path to genetics: Portraying science as a social process.” Science & Education22.2 (2013): 293-324.
Schwarzbach, Erik, et al. “Gregor J. Mendel–genetics founding father.” Czech J. Genet. Plant Breed 50.2 (2014): 43-51.