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Mendel was very very lucky that he chose the traits that he did. They happened to be single gene traits. If he had picked any number of multigene traits, it would be very difficult if not impossible to work out how simple gene inheritance works.

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Stoney_Logica1@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Lucky, or observant?

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- xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  scienceprimer.com/punnett-square-calculator
  
  This is what a 5 gene trait looks like:
  
  5x5 punnett square gene frequencies
  
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runeko@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Perhaps there were many before him that tried with multi-gene traits that were not successful, and we never heard of them.

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- shutz@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You mean, they became extinct?
  
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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Maybe he only reported on the ones that followed the patterns he could explain. A statistical analysis showed that he most likely fudged some data, too.

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