ABSTRACT
Gregor Mendel's heredity equations generalize from plants, to horses, to sea horses (a sort of marine fish), to sea eagles, and to humans. Mendel disentangled some of the principles of heredity and gave us a glimpse in to a new aspect of the truth that would open up whole new fields of endeavor, such as designer babies, genetically modified plants, and molecular drug discovery. He succeeded in extracting the general ratios of inheritance by his skillful use of experiments and measurements. After 8 years work and analysis of about 10,000 pea plants, Mendel had the following insights that best accounted for his observations. The appearance of two different characteristics (tall or dwarf plants; or variation in flower color or position on stem) in the second generation (F2) after cross-breeding plants of the first generation (F1) occur in the ratio of 3:1. This has been called Mendel's first law or principle of inheritance.
