Gregor Mendel for Android

11 things about Gregor Mendel

1. Mendel focused his research on seven traits: the color of the seeds (green or yellow), the height of the plant (tall or dwarf), the shape of the pea (smooth or wrinkled), the color of the flower (purple or white), the shape of the pod (inflated or constricted), the color of the pod (yellow or green), and the position of the flowers (axial or terminal).

2. With this app students learn about the life and contributions to botany and the study of genetics made by Gregor Mendel.

3. The app shows that Gregor Mendel certainly deserves an important place in the history of botany, genetics and science in general.

4. Through meticulous data collection Mendel was able to develop a theory to explain how genetic traits are passed from one generation to the next.

5. At the monastery where he lived there was a large garden and this gave Mendel an opportunity to collect a huge amount of data about plants.

6. It discusses Mendel's studies of dominant and recessive traits in pea plants.

7. With this app students learn about the significant contributions that Mendel's experiments revealed.

8. Mendel's research showed that a dominant trait appears in the offspring if it is contributed from a parent through a dominant allele.

9. Mendel conducted simple experiments in hybridization with pea plants.

10. The timeline feature presents key events in the history of genetics and tapping on timeline points brings up descriptions of each historical event and tells about its significance.

11. Gregor Mendel was a monk.