History+of+Genes

History of Genes: //Brian Cesiro, Macaela Lewis, Anthony Gay// Long before the term "Gene" came into exsistence people knew about inherated characteristics. They understood that "like produces like." However until later research this was a crude idea and did not always work in laboratorie settings. Then came Gregor Mendel, a Moravian Monk who spent years growing and studying successive generations of pea plants, through this he came up with two laws. The first law, **the law of segregation**, this law states that for each inherated trait there are two elements of heredity. The second law, **the law of independent assortment**, states that when two traits of a parent are considered, each trait is inherited indepently; these findings however were ignored until the 1900's. Then in the 1950's James Watson and Fransis Crick proposed that each chromosome made long strands of self replicating molecules of deoxgribonucleic acid (DNA), which controlled heredity. Genetics are very complicated and you would need a very good education to understand them. Genes do not directly determine our behavior.