A student made presentation on Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics. It tells the story of his life and studies, his experiments with pea plants in the monastery garden, and the laws of heredity he worked out, with a worked example of the 3:1 ratio in the F2 generation.
What this presentation covers
- Mendel’s early life and education
- his experimental garden at the monastery in Brno
- how his pea plant experiments began
- Mendel’s laws of heredity
- parent, F1 and F2 generations
- the 3:1 ratio
- why his work became the basis of modern genetics
Level: KS3 / GCSE
Slides: 17
Format: PowerPoint (.pptx)