People had known for thousands of years that traits were passed from one generation to the next. They applied in breeding plants and animals to keep desired traits and eliminate undesired ones.\ The mechanism by which traits were passed between generations was unknown, however, until began experiments with

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utilized that always produced offspring exhibiting the trait of interest, such as a single flower color or pod color.\ Crossing two pure-breeding lines that exhibited different traits as the generation resulted in a generation in which all individuals exhibited the trait of only one parent. Crossing these plants produced a generation in which the missing parental trait reappeared.\ In a the plant lines that had contributed the pollen and eggs in the original cross were reversed. Mendel observed no differences in the outcomes. This test showed that parental plants to the traits of offspring.\ Mendel's innovation was applying mathematical analysis to the results of the breeding experiments he performed. By counting the numbers of offspring showing different traits for a single characteristic, such as flower color, Mendel deduced that the in the

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People had known for thousands of years that traits were passed from one generation to the next. They applied in breeding plants and animals to keep desired traits and eliminate undesired ones. The mechanism by which traits were passed between generations was unknown, however, until began experiments with He utilized that always produced offspring exhibiting the trait of interest, such as a single flower color or pod color. Crossing two pure-breeding lines that exhibited different traits as the generation resulted in a generation in which all individuals exhibited the trait of only one parent. Crossing these plants produced a generation in which the missing parental trait reappeared. In a the plant lines that had contributed the pollen and eggs in the original cross were reversed. Mendel observed no differences in the outcomes. This test showed that parental plants to the traits of offspring. Mendel's innovation was applying mathematical analysis to the results of the breeding experiments he performed. By counting the numbers of offspring showing different traits for a single characteristic, such as flower color, Mendel deduced that the in the F2 generation was