The Man Who Discovered Dominant & Recessive Genes: Meet Gregor Mendel

[@murderbot_2pt0]

I refuse to believe this video is eight years old.

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I agree

[@sum1sw]

Why?

[@murderbot_2pt0]

@@sum1sw because that would make me feel really young

[@mikereardon]

No it’s 9 years

[@theladyja52]

it,s eight

[@jade6423]

Bruh, how is this video so old? It’s so good animated. I bet the person that edited this video is god at editing now.

[@mamtasingh2775]

I guess the editor had somehow few genetic trait of Mendel, I mean ' ahead of his time '!

[@marcuschristianson]

Why did Gregor Mendel fail handwriting? He kept crossing his peas...

[@sameerathreya9253]

Sorry? I didn't understand..

[@czechmeoutbabe1997]

+Marcus Christianson uhhhh... I hope bad pun makers like you are slowly bred out of the gene pool......uhh.... Of course I'm kidding that's actually really mean.

[@_Umbrael_]

LOL, puns are mazing, ur awesome bro... took me a few seconds to get it tho tbh.

[@moomoomachines7193]

Marcus Christianson I don’t get it

[@matthwlin]

ha, funny.

[@IntoXica7eD]

My bio teacher needs to watch some of your videos. She took an entire 3 hour class to explain Mendels work and why it was important. Thanks Hank!

[@dblockjumper6929]

whos watching in 2021, 9 years after it was made!

[@markpeterman5569]

Just because it is 9 years old doesn't mean it has value. Think of all the great music that is 9 years old or older...

[@chevycruz295]

me

[@brendanmccarty2529]

i am :)

[@ASHISHSINGH-ld9do]

Me watching in 2021

[@ramisjaved6321]

Me :D

[@BasBleu02]

Gregor Mendel was my hero as a young junior high school science fair kid. I won the science fair based on his work (via hamsters, fastest breeding mammals I could find and my mother would tolerate). Thanks, Herr Mendel! :-)

[@TimothyWei-zz6xg]

😮

[@bern9642]

Mendel's dedication to an 8 year old experiment all by himself is amazing

[@comradebanana129]

Lysenko > Mendel

[@TheBurningWarrior]

@@comradebanana129 The heckin what? Lysenko, the father of killing millions by being wrong about ag science while insisting (through the iron fist of the soviet state) that you're right? The closest thing to being right he ever was is when epiginetics proved he wasn't quite as wrong as it first appeared (while still being very very wrong.). To put it another way: Where he "was right he was not original, and where he was original he wasn't right"

[@anoriolkoyt]

How long does it take a pea plant to flower? His experiments must have been very tedious; patience is definitely a trait of a great mind.

[@TheRABIDdude]

Damn straight, as Hank said he spent 8 years cultivating them. What I find most impressive is that If you look at any of his data you'll see that for most of that time he was literally just doing the exact same experiments over and over again to get more accurate results. For some of his tests he recorded nearly *8,000* offspring to get an accurate ratio of green:yellow. crazy patience.

[@sreejadutta1762]

I really regret taking Mendel Lightly.. when i first studied About him back in Grade 10 not much was written about him.. But i just came to realise the true extent of his brilliance and Perseverance. Mendel is not the father of genetics only for His Brainwork but also because of his incredible patience and hardwork.. Mendel was truly Overpowered...

[@SciShow]

we have an episode on Nikola Tesla in the works - it's scheduled to be published in October. so, feel free to keep requesting him, but we've heard you! you just have to wait a little longer. our production schedule prevents us from doing a super quick turn around on Great Minds episodes.

[@saysitsmydad]

noooooooo this came out 2 days after my bio final. Mendel was one of the things we learned a lot about.

[@sniperwert545]

Same this came out one day before my Gregor Mendel test but I got an A+

[@Haiz18]

My teacher made me watch this :/

[@juliabonaparte5725]

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Same.

[@laggylizards4502]

Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk who was considered the father of modern genetics. And researched pea plants.He was born in jul 20, 1822 and sadley passed away in Jan 06, 1884 at the yung age of 61 years old Gregor Mendel as a child and teen spoke German and his parents were very poor but he lived on a farm so they did have plenty of food to eat . When he grew up his parents wanted him to work on the farm but he went to a college. And later studied peas and he discovered that there are 7 basic characters of 20,000 individual pea plants and in 1865 he published a book on peas and gardening. He was also a very religious man Mendel discovered alot of things about pea plants. He discovered genetics are hereditary by experimenting on his parents farm. He dicovered that plants have dominant and recissive genes and these determine the plants traits.Mr.Greager also found that purple flowered pea plants gene is more dominant. Mendels parients spent a lot a lot of money on young Greagers education. Mr.Greagers peers dident even understand his discoveries untell 35 after his death they started to understand his confusing work. Mendel did so many experiments he was considered the father of modern genetics.

[@scholar_lami]

I swear this explained 20 pages in my book in 10 minutes. This isn't skill, this is talent.

[@gayanrs]

I really like Hank's style of humour.

[@thebeatplan]

great minds: Hank Green

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[@elizabethlake3266]

"and no I'm not going to shut up about pea plants; it's fascinating!" Haha! Hank is awesome.

[@bedepal]

guys... nobody will probably read this, but i just want to make this clear. Im from the czech republic, and what was then austria is not possible to put in connectin with what is austria now. austria then would be better to as an habsburk monarchy. it included what is now austria, as well as buch of other historical countries, like bohemia and hungary, and brno, was and is a capital city of moravia. people living there would not consider themseves to be austrians, but to be moravians. ( as they are still now, when they brag about brno, and talk crap about prague, and stuff ) so, you could say, that it was a part of austria, but it is inaccurate, and most of people would not get it right.. bohemians never thought about them selves as about austrians, really, never. they consider them selves to be bohemians, which was part of habsburk ( austrian ) monarchy. in fact, they would be very insulted if you would call them austrians, because they actually hated vienna, and austrians ( meaning people of historical realm of austria ) so to say that his father was austrian worker would probably really disturb him.

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no one cares...

[@mercster]

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[@jamesutube6734]

+ WATCH YOUR MECHANICS( CAPITALIZATION) DUMB SHUCK!

[@VishakhaJoshiKothari]

Can you also do Dimitri Mendeleev, father of the periodic table? His story is just genius!

[@merubindono]

The scandal wasn't as juicy as I thought.

[@octo8116]

a sheer disappointment that was

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[@anchaenami]

my teacher showed this to us, and does NOT appreciate your cursing lol press f to pay respects

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[@katepurrkins6672]

I would love to hear more about things along the lines of Psychology and Neuroscience. The various studies, famous minds, origins, importance in today's society, etc. Anything a Psych 1010 course would touch base on, but never delved into those fascinating details. I want to know more about Pavlov, Maslow, Skinner. The different Neurological and Psychological disorders like OCD, ADD, depression, phobias, the works! Your show is my favorite and I can't wait to see more!

[@sayakchoudhury9711]

Please do a segment about American biochemists Carl Cori and Gerty Cori, they practically revolutionized our knowledge of carbohydrate metabolism

[@AnimeShinigami13]

i have a hanging basket of peas with white flowers! I've been using Laxton's progress variety. I actually wanted to play with pea breeding because of Gregor Mendel's work. I've also got bush cucumber in the same basket as well as parsley.

[@karanchadha5667]

i would love to see a Sci show great minds episode on srinivas ramanujan

[@petrkosvanec]

What a mathematitian!

[@Solowithcompany]

In every course I took that asked to research or wright or talk about a famous person of history, I to this day still declare that Otto Van Bismark of Prussia is by far one of the most fascinating minds of history in his brilliant manipulation of the international treaties and under-the-table dealings and treaties. I would like it if you, in your most entertaining of ways, shared the wealth of Otto Van Bismark of Prussia to the rest of the KZbin Community you have following you :) Thank you!

[@doublebassheeltoe]

ver-sook-uh oober flonzen hib-rid-en. Two important things to remember when pronouncing German words: 1) EVERY letter, including vowels at the end of words, are pronounced. An E at the end of the word just has the "uh" sound to it. 2) ......Unless there are two vowels next to each other, in which case the "first one walk and the second one talks". So, in the word fleisch, the ei makes the I sound. In the word tier, the ie makes the E sound. This is true in almost every case except for vowels with umlauts next to other vowels, in which case the pronunciation is probably something ridiculous. Speaking of umlauts (the two dots on top of a vowel), that just means you pronounce the vowel with its long sound and not its short sound. German lesson complete. Have a good day.

[@jmdefault]

This may be a bit late but what do you mean by vowels with umlauts next to other vowels? Umlauts are basically shortened versions of "ae", "oe" and "ue". The version with the two dots is a relatively new invention. The only thing common in the German language of what you are describing is "äu" which is basically the same as "eu" :)

[@bensingleton954]

Thanks guys for the support

[@taekwondodude8]

This dude is like a sciencey version of Tobuscus.

[@Robstar100]

but funny

[@kanns4412]

lol thats what i thought

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me to

[@n2zapper]

So, I think the underlying workings of computers and computation would be a cool thing to put on Sci-showsee, most people don't understand a few basic things...I think a general grasp can be given pretty easily, and you'd do it the most entertaining Hank! 1.) Binary Numbers (maybe compliment of twos, cuz it's awesome) 2.) Digital logic: (How you make and gates and or gates out of switches, how you make more complicated things out of those....that's really all you'd need to get people to know!)

[@tcoudi]

just discovered your channel,greetings from brno,czech republic.

[@Mirinovic]

A to mu Dovolite tvrdit že Brno je v Rakousku? Když už tak v tè době v Rakousku - Uhersku

[@prokopdvere4004]

@@Mirinovic Rakousko-Uhersko vzniklo až v roce 1867, ve videem zmiňovaném roce 1843 šlo skutečně o Rakouské císařství (tedy zkráceně Rakousko). Opravdu si nemyslím, že se Hank snažil říct, že Brno je součástí dnešního Rakouska.

[@Mirinovic]

@@prokopdvere4004 Brno i za Rakouska bylo na Moravě, to sem chtěl říci A díky za slušný argument.

[@lif8387]

4:19 the way you say number two makes you sound like Eugene from tangled

[@Oremoose]

And they put down thier beakers and said, "ooooohhhhhhhhh."

[@kristynaplihalova]

It wasn't Austria, it was Czech (or Bohemian) land all the time. It was just part of Austro-Hungary Empire. Sorry for being so punctual, as Czech I am little bit over sensitive to this detail, cause I am proud of my fellow Bohemian. But good job anyway...

[@z0k6]

Who Is Here From School Science Class???

[@chevycruz295]

me

[@loriskyrud2003]

FYI .. Hank: you are a genius and wonderful teacher, and we love you. ... Great episode, thank you.

[@spazmobot]

I love you Hank. You are so super cool. Yes, I mean it!

[@Ta3allamOnline]

Ahmed Zewail: Great mind. And, i would like if you include that he, as Galileo, did introduce us to a world that we've never thought that exploring will be possible one day; the world of the small, and very fast!

[@mamabrigitte9277]

Norman Borlaug! And I'll take the bag of whiskers, thank you very much. :P

[@Pupcan]

"Mendel put us all on the right track." Well put.

[@bensingleton954]

Absolutely inspirational video, thanks for posting #MENDELTILLIDIE

[@Xmarksthespot440]

K.

[@barneyaddenbrook3668]

#PrayForMendel #MENDELTILLIDIE

[@Miles_yt]

Can't beat him, gotta love a bit of Gregor #MentalMendal

[@thegirlwhowaited411]

THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS! I have a final including all of this information tomorrow...

[@lordwyrtz]

I don´t know, it just poped up in my head :D Dont take me serius...

[@user-vm2vr9ky2p]

pov: your biology teacher is making you watch this

[@KagirinaiYonaka]

Isaac Newton: Great Minds? Discover laws of gravity, motion, optic and calculus before he turned 26? And how his religiousity get the better of his scientific inquiry... such a lost.

[@MegaBaddog]

nventions were copied from liebnitz

[@KagirinaiYonaka]

madmarvin99 i think its the other way around.

[@MegaBaddog]

KagirinaiYonaka xorry no, liebnitz was the real inventor of many of these , newton wasnt able provide complete proof for his 3 laws of motion

[@kwazooplayingguardsman5615]

no, newton provided a comprohensive proof for his three laws. and fyi, liebnitz was also a heavily devout christian as were newton. I don't see why these two things are antagonistic to one another?

[@cowhearter]

I've decided to make "White squirrel, black squirrel make grey squirrel" my mantra. Thanks again Hank.

[@YnseSchaap]

I need to pea

[@EiferBrennan]

I know this video about Gregor Mendel, but I now have a new favorite word. "Kerfuffle". Awesome!

[@wentzelvanderberg7016]

u talk fast, super fast

[@flashingrednuke2980]

Wentzel van der Berg Mendel is my ancestor

[@elyciacormier5235]

Tycho Brahe would make an AMAZING great minds clip. A huge contributor to astronomy and the ultimate mad scientist.

[@Noutelus]

I want the bag of shaved whiskers!!

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XD

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[@links212]

Do one about William Ferrel! He's an extremely under-appreciated genius. Born on a farm in the early 19th century, he had a very limited education, mostly self taught. But at a young age he already began predicting lunar eclipses and stuff just by doing math with a stick on his barn door. Later, he started explaining the dynamics of our atmosphere and found an error in a work published more than 200 years earlier, and now he has an entire atmospheric cell named after him.

[@michelleburfield6015]

this show is hilarious

[@Jdgaming114]

MY GOD hes good at editing good info too.

[@CoreyStudios2000]

I feel happy that God supported evolution and genetics. Also, I'm Roman Catholic Deist! ;)

[@OrgasmandTea]

I can't stop watching Sci Show. SOMEBODY HELP ME I NEED TO SLEEP.

[@dblockjumper6929]

whos taking bio?

[@pritemloo]

i learn more about life in scishow then school. keep it up Hank!

[@cagonzalez562]

DUDE, This show is great! I love the attitude and love the style. Keep up the good work.

[@messyhair42]

Richard Feynman; Great mind, greatest mind, or just the best teacher physics has ever had.

[@JeevesyTwist42]

Do one about Hank Green, he is a genius when it comes to education!

[@AlterMacGyver]

How about a video on Aristotle? I'll admit that he was wrong about most everything, but he ushered in an era of learning, was one of the first people to think logically and apply logic to everything, and he created what eventually would become modern science. He could also be considered the only person to heavily influence science and religion, without one of the two hating him.

[@MrsJawes99]

You should do one on websites that teach science. They are a great help and can help us learn. Besides, we want people smarter.

[@GabrielForth]

As a computing student I say Alan Turing, a lot of modern computing is based on his work and this year two of his papers were declassified which shows how ahead of his time his work was if the military were still finding it useful. Also his death is a very sad story and it's a part which most WW2 history programs don't mention.

[@inswedishmynameisdik]

1 week of scishow > 10 years of science in school

[@electricjuicebox9146]

I'm so glad this video exists! I have to talk about Mendel to a group of classmates tomorrow and I'm finding his writings hard to understand. This has helped greatly!

[@evabeezero]

Now I just really want some peas.

[@josh32tripple1]

i'm glad you're funny. i love watching these

[@aura69-vibes]

Man I'm seeing this now as a grade 8 student and this person really has the knowledge of Sheldon! 😳😲

[@thaddeuswhite8239]

hello mr brandon wingert, you are my favorite teacher

[@AgookMatuong-kh3hx4tu1f]

This video was released since I was in primary 8 sitting for my primary leaving certificate Now I'm currently a second year student in University ❤❤❤

[@iamhoudini]

I think you should talk about Anna Morandi Manzolini & her contributions to medicine and the study of human anatomy in 18th century Italy. She wasn't an experimental scientist; she made incredibly detailed wax models of the human body and its parts (specializing in sensory organs and the male reproductive system) for doctors to study. Rebecca Messbarger's book "The Lady Anatomist" is a good starting point.

[@RainingBluebellEmphenia]

Genetics are so interesting, man.

[@gelasson]

Do an episode on Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. He was a weird russian cosmist philosopher who eventually ended up influencing the soviet space program. You can do an episode on the whole russian cosmist movement, they were highly influential and mindblowingly bizzare (and they were great scientists). Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov was nown as "russian Socrates", Vladimir Vernadsky introduced this notion of noosphere, et cetera.

[@MrMusuta]

Brno is in Moravia (historical land and part of Czech Republic), not in Austria. Belive me, I live there :D

[@mrericsully]

Hank, thanks for such a great lesson, but I wish you had gone more into the details of how tedious his experiments were. He had to manually keep the pea plants from being pollinated and had to manually do the pollination in addition to all of the data collection. I learned about it from a kids book "Gregor Mendel : the friar who grew peas".

[@nolandscott]

Interesting note: If you applied Mendel's early discoveries to many other traits in plants and animals, you would conclude that he was wrong. Not because Mendel's discoveries were wrong, but because many traits depend on multiple alleles and do not behave like Mendel's pea flowers. The point being: when a theory explains some phenomena extremely well, but other phenomena not at all, it may well be only evidence that we have an incomplete understanding of the theory itself.

[@josB5819]

this is what i would have needed to ace my ap biology final last January. so darn good videos!

[@AlvinDannZaaPangazou]

Where were you when I needed to pass my Biology exam. It's been 2 years I left middle school and just now I understood what Mendel's Law really is.....

[@theliesl]

I have to give props to another Austrian scientists: Sigmund Freud. He was also wrong about or oversimplified many of his hypothesis about the human psyche. It can be frustrating how people focus on his "failures" even though, like Mendel, he was the first to truly look into his field. I think it would be a good idea to look at his research and the birth of Psychology in SciShow. (I might be about to get my Psychology degree... maybe a bit biased. haha)

[@merrittbaldwin4089]

This was wonderfully narrirated!! cutos

[@Walnuss]

Put black and white together equals grey is not "exactly completely wrong". Apart from dominant and recessive genes, there are also semi-dominant and co-dominant genes. Just wanted to add this. Keep up your great work, thanks a lot! :)

[@martiniuturtlini]

He died nearly seven years ago but what would be his 78th birthday happened last month. His 7th death anniversary would be on August 21st so maybe Hank could upload a video about him on that day as tribute.

[@gulllars]

I see your point, and concede to it. The debate about humanities being science is a debate of purity and terminology, and is not really a constructive argument to have. BTW, I'm Norwegian, and an engineering student, so I get what you mean :)

[@xorxand1001]

Thanks for not shutting up about peas because now I feel completely informed. I'm so happy that haters existed long before da interwebs.

[@meganolson9161]

I have been to his growing site and museum in the Czech Republic. Its really cool.

[@KemaTheAtheist]

Not all genes are dominant/recessive. There also codominance, which is how you get a light brown child from a dark/light coupling or pink roses when you mix white and red roses. There's also partial dominance, which is where genes fight... this is how animals have spots; or some flowers will be red in the middle but white at the edges... There's also phenotypes which are based on multiple genes. Eye color in humans is determined by more than 20 genes It's very convoluted, just like Hank said.

[@lucjeeh]

hank, you don't understand, I need a Tesla or Da Vinci video... they are my two favorite scientists of all time! I need it

[@andrewandrew599]

May I recommend scishow's The Science of Dreaming? It's like your sleeping and dreaming, but you still get to watch scishow.

[@roderickobriensr6504]

Great job on this episode!!! BTW, I went to Mendel High School in Chicago many many moons ago. Love this channel.

[@sonicthephoenixhog]

The white squirrel plus black squirrel makes grey squirrel thing isn't entirely false. It's called incomplete dominance and can occur in some flowers where breeding red and white ones can make pink.

[@F1nddatruth]

Yes, there are lots of them. Bruce DePalma, Stan Meyer, Marko Rodin, Paul Pantone, Dr. B. Stanley Pons, Dr. Martin Fleischman, the list goes on and on. Just because we don't understand what or how they do what they do doesn't mean they are wrong or crazy.

[@themascibrator]

The dominant vs recessive thing is about alleles for a gene, which are different versions of the same gene. I don't think we really know why one allele is dominant over another. The difference between dominant and recessive alleles can be as little as 1 DNA base sometimes. But there are also other interactions like codominance and incomplete dominance, where neither allele is fully dominant or recessive, or the black squirell + white squirell really does make a gray squirell (as an example).

[@angramey]

Great Minds: Alfred Wagner. Discovered the concept of continental drift in 1912 and was then laughed out of the scientific community. His theory had so little support that the American Association of Petroleum Geologists even dedicated one of their symposiums entirely to talking about how wrong he was. It wasn't except until the 1950's after WWII radar had discovered the presence of underwater ridges/trenches which matched his proposed plate boundaries.

[@lcorinth]

Aaah!! Hank! I said you should do Mendel like weeks ago! I'm so excited!!

[@IsaacTreat]

I realize it's already been requested a lot, but Tesla please. I had no idea how frickin amazing the guy was until the oatmeal filled me in.

[@SaffronStories]

This is an amazing video,only a little minor thing, Brno was never in Austria. At the time, Czech Republic was a largely self-dependent part of Austrian-Hungarian Empire,but it's a bit like saying England when you mean Scotland,you see...

[@ArcaneShadows13]

It is more on the fundamental/biological side. I believe it has to do with when gametes are created through meiosis, a cell with the full 46 chromosomes splits into the two gametes, each gamete gets one of the alleles and the second one gets the other. So each sperm or egg is given one allele for every one of the parents trait, and the other goes to a sperm or egg cell that has the other one. Hope that helps

[@theblockbros1]

Not only do I have to cope with Hank Green outside of school, now inside school as well.

[@bensingleton954]

Init Harold

[@Xmarksthespot440]

Yh init

[@modernlacuna]

+Wimpywolf You have to cope with him? Does he stalk you?

[@bellasophiagal]

Thanks Hank! Great job on this video :) It makes everything really clear and straight forward.

[@gr33nalchemist]

Learning about Mendel was one of my favorites moments in school. He really was an amazing mind.

[@dreadpiratederson]

James Clerk Maxwell. Not only did he create the aptly named Maxwell's Equations, he used them to predict electromagnetic waves that propagated through space without a medium, and computed their speed. Without knowing it, he'd computed the speed of light to within 5%.