Mendel's procedure

MENDEL'S PROCEDURE

  • Mendel first developed pure parental (P) lines for each contrasted seven pairs of characters of pea by self-fertilizing.
  • The two pure lines (e.g. TALL x DWARF) for a pair of contrasted characters was crossed.
  • The offspring were the F1 (first filial) generation.
  • Mendel found that all the F1 hybrids always showed only one of the parent trait and never the other.
  • F1 plants were self-pollinated to get the F2 (second filial) generation.
  • Original contrasting characters of the parental generation reappeared in the F2 generation.
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