Dear Gregor Mendel,
I understand that you have developed the theory of inheritance and heredity. I've discovered that you have experimented with the garden pea plant. First I believe you pollinated short pea plants with tall pea plants. To my understanding the next generation of pea plants resulting from the experiment were all tall pea plants. You bred two of the pea plants from the new generation and they ended up having 3 tall pea plants and 1 short pea plant. I noticed that there seemed to be two different traits. One trait seemed to appear in every generation, which was called the dominant trait. One trait seemed to disappear; this was known as the recessive trait. You discovered discoveries sadly, weren't discovered until 1900.
Many people have helped pave the pathway of genetics. Charles Darwin discovered different characteristics of finches as he sail through the galapogas islands, Punnet created the punnet square(a chart used to predict traits among offspring) and Watson & Crick discovered the structure of DNA, the hereditary information found inside the nucleus. DNA is found inside your genes which, by the thousands are found on your 23 pairs of chromosomes.
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