Visited Google this Wednesday and found doodles of peas?
Search engine giant Google paid tribute to Gregor Johann Mendel, an Augustinian friar and scientist who celebrated his 189th birth anniversary Wednesday.
People who visited Google were greeted with doodles of peas referring to Mendel’s experiment on plant hybridization.
Mendel is known as the “father of modern genetics” and won a posthumous award for his study on the inheritance of certain traits of pea plants.
Mendel patiently cultivated and tested almost 28 000 pea plants between 1856 and 1863. This experiment led him to discover the Law of Independent (–foul word(s) removed–)ortment and the Law of Segregation, later known as Mendel’s Laws of Inheritance.
According to online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the Law of Independent (–foul word(s) removed–)ortment or “Inheritance Law” states that alleles of different genes (–foul word(s) removed–)ort independently of one another during gamete formation.
The Law of Segregation, on the other hand, states that when any individual produces gametes, the copies of a gene separate so that each gamete receives only one copy.
However, Mendel’s works were not recognized until the 20th century.
