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Mendelian Crosses

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Mendel’s law; Mendelian inheritance

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A set of breeding experiments and carefully augmented observations, performed on sweet pea (Pisum sativum) to understand the pattern of inheritable characters or traits, which led to three basic principles that are the pillars of classical genetics.

Introduction

Gregor Johann Mendel (1822–1884) was an Austrian (now Czech Republic) priest-cum-scientist who is known for his extraordinary work on sweet peas and is essentially considered as the father of modern genetics. In 1853, upon completion of his studies from the University of Vienna, he joined a monastery in Brno (called Brünnin German) as a science teacher and began his groundbreaking work on sweet peas to understand the basic mechanism of heredity. To understand the mechanism, he chose sweet pea plants considering few essential and critical points. Peas are easy to cultivate, easily available, have shorter generation time, produce large number of progeny in terms of seeds,...

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  1. Centre for Chemical Biology, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India

    Akash Mallick

  2. Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

    Akash Gautam

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  1. Oakland University , Rochester, Michigan, USA

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  2. Department of Psychology, Oakland University Department of Psychology, Rochester, Michigan, USA

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  1. Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

    Akash Gautam

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Mallick, A., Gautam, A. (2018). Mendelian Crosses. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_2055-1

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