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Title: What are the particles that according to Gregor Mendel that cause inherited characteristics? Post by: migue on Sep 14, 2012 What are the particles that according to Gregor Mendel that cause inherited characteristics?
Title: What are the particles that according to Gregor Mendel that cause inherited characteristics? Post by: migatomio on Sep 14, 2012 nucleic acids (DNA) cause inherited characteristics but Mendel didn't know about that yet, so I think the answer is either genes or alleles.
Title: What are the particles that according to Gregor Mendel that cause inherited characteristics? Post by: Sm4450 on Sep 15, 2012 Genes which are specific sequences of DNA.
Title: What are the particles that according to Gregor Mendel that cause inherited characteristics? Post by: miguel on Sep 15, 2012 Alleles. Gregor Mendel didn't know what they were made of.
Title: What are the particles that according to Gregor Mendel that cause inherited characteristics? Post by: mightypulpo on Sep 15, 2012 alleles
Title: What are the particles that according to Gregor Mendel that cause inherited characteristics? Post by: smag on Sep 15, 2012 Mendel did not address the cause of inherited characteristics. Rather, he elucidated how the traits were passed from parent to offspring. His idea is known as the discrete packet model of inheritance. Mendel showed that traits were discrete entities that remained discrete in the offspring (we now call these entities genes). He had know way of even guessing at what those packets were made of. The role of DNA in inheritance wasn't discovered until the 1940's by a pair at Cold Spring Harbor named Hershey and Chase.
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