Mendel's Laws, excerpt 1 | MIT 7.01SC Fundamentals of Biology
Mendel's Laws, excerpt 1 Instructor: Eric Lander View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/7-01SCF11 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More ...
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The following content is provided under a Creative Commons license. Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high quality educational resources for free. To make a donation or view additional materials from hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare at ocw.mit.edu. ERIC LANDER: Let's talk about what Mendel really did in his experiments. So section one, Mendel's experiments. Mendel did a lot of really cool things. The first thing he did was, in order to study heredity, that was his assignment as a monk-- go study heredity-- he had to get some material to work with. He decided to use peas. Why peas? Well, there are a lot of varieties of peas in the market, many different kinds of peas. And you could breed them together. There were tall peas, short peas, green...
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The following content is provided under a Creative Commons license. Your support will help MIT OpenCourseWare continue to offer high quality educational resources for free. To make a donation or view additional materials from hundreds of MIT courses, visit MIT OpenCourseWare at ocw.mit.edu. ERIC LANDER: Let's talk about what Mendel really did in his experiments. So section one, Mendel's experiments. Mendel did a lot of really cool things. The first thing he did was, in order to study heredity, that was his assignment as a monk-- go study heredity-- he had to get some material to work with. He decided to use peas. Why peas? Well, there are a lot of varieties of peas in the market, many different kinds of peas. And you could breed them together. There were tall peas, short peas, green...
