Pea breeding memes? I like it
Can't stop thinking about those peas
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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kokopelli@lemmy.world 1 year ago
shutz@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Give peas a chance!
xkforce@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Stoney_Logica1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lucky, or observant?
xkforce@lemmy.world 1 year ago
scienceprimer.com/punnett-square-calculator
This is what a 5 gene trait looks like:
5x5 punnett square gene frequencies
runeko@programming.dev 1 year ago
Perhaps there were many before him that tried with multi-gene traits that were not successful, and we never heard of them.
shutz@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
You mean, they became extinct?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 year 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.