Gregor Mendel's Studies

The theories of heredity attributed to Gregor Mendel, based on his work with pea plants, is well known to any student of biology. Mendel studied many plants, but he was really interested in pea plants. His studies were known as hybridization. Hybridization is when one or more species are crossed or bred. He wanted to find out the rules of heredity. Heredity means what traits are passed on from parent plants to child plants. His first presentation was about his eight of experimentation with artificial plant hybridization. Most of Mendel's work was largely ignored until sixteen years after his death. During his studies he also experimented with bees trying to improve honey production. Doing this he was also collecting data to test his theories of inheritance.


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