This is Gregor Mendel. He was a monk who lived in Austria.

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This is Gregor Mendel. He was a monk who lived
in Austria.
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This is Mendels garden.
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Mendel grew peas. Many peas.
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He liked peas a lot. Here are some of his jars
of peas.
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He knew peas reproduced sexually (with and egg
and pollen), and he began to control what peas
crossed with other peas.
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Funny, he thought. Some of my peas are tall.
Some are short.
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If I cross a tall pea with a short pea, I get
only tall peas.
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Mendel, a friend, and his tall peas.
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But when I take two tall pea children from that
cross and mix them, I get some tall and some
short. Hmmm.
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Mendel Started Adding.
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He started counting all of the short peas he got,
and all of the tall peas. He seems very
puzzled in this photo.
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Gregor Mendel is called The father of modern
genetics because of his work breeding and
analyzing peas in the 1800s. He looked
carefully at his numbers, and thought hard
about PROBABILITY- the chance something will
happen. Expressed in percentage or fraction or
ratio. Ex. 25 or 1/4 or 13