Mendelian and Non-Mendelian Concepts

Hey guys! In this video we are going to take a look Mendelian genetics. Gregor Mendel, who was an Austrian monk, presented a theory of inheritance that he discovered when working with pea plants. Before Mendel’s theory, everyone just thought that inheritance was like mixing two things together. For example, if you mix yellow and blue together, then you get green. Likewise, people believed that the parents’ looks were just kind of mixed together homogeneously in their offspring. Gregor Mendel wasn’t convinced, so he did a little research, and he discovered that it doesn’t quite work that way.