Can peas have grandparents? Learn about inherited traits and heredity with a set of activities focused on Mendelian genetics. As your class learns about the process of passing traits along in Punnett squares, they take on the role of...

Discover how Gregor Mendel uncovered the key principles of inheritance using a simple, familiar system: the pea plant. Learn about Mendel's life, his experiments, and his legacy.

Presents biographical information about prominent geneticists and describes the discoveries they are famous for.

This resource explains Mendel's first law (Law of Segregation) in detail. Includes Mendel's original experiments with results and conclusions.

Mendel's second law and how he arrived at it through his experiments. Includes vocabulary and examples.

This site explains genetic beliefs before and after Mendel, and also includes a section on Mendel himself and his experiments, entitled, "The Monk and his Peas".

Upper level discussion of several of Mendel's experiments and laws.

This is a group of Mendelian Genetics exercises that are designed to show the evolution of a trait within a population. The site covers instruction in calculating genotypic and allelic frequencies, determining dominance, the...

This personal site gives the seven characteristics that Mendel observed and a fairly large background to what Mendel saw and interpreted.

Basic information on the life and works of biologist Gregor Mendel.

An overview of the life of scientist Gregor Mendel discusses his early life as a professor, his experiments with genetics, his research in other scientific areas, and his later years.

This college-level biology reference book introduces the study of heredity and genetics using diagrams and descriptive illustrations.

Article reviews Mendel's basic model of inheritance then provides an overview of variations on Mendel's laws, including multiple alleles, incomplete dominance, co-dominance, pleiotropy, lethal alleles, sex linkage, genetic interactions,...

Good description of Mendel's findings and his second major principle.

The site promotes the importance of Morgan and his experiments in genetics with fruit flies on the field of biology.

Story of Michael Nirenberg and his colleagues deciphering of DNA.

Read very accessible biographies of thirteen scientists in many fields including medicine, paleontology, genetics, chemistry, physiology, marine biology, microbiology, biochemistry, and natural selection. Emphasis is on the scientists'...

This site explores the role genetics plays in making you look the way that you do. Content includes fun facts and a classroom experiment.

Resource provides a discussion of Mendel's law of segregation with a focus on genotype, phenotype, alleles, heterozygous/homozygous, and 2 x 2 Punnett squares.

Historical perspective on Mendel's contribution. Spends a little time setting up what the current beliefs of Mendel's day were and how he changed things with what he did.

Article defines Mendel's law of independent assortment, provides examples, and takes a look at how it is used to make predictions. Also, discusses dihybrid crosses and 4 x 4 Punnett squares.

A great supplement to help introduce Punnett Squares. It tells how to set them up and how to use them correctly. A sample quiz is offered and feedback is given to help with understanding why an answer is correct or not.

This site provides a timeline of historical events in regards to discovery and research on genetics.