Mendel’s Method (A scholoimester’s worldview)

IN THE BEGINNING was Mendel*

Alone and thinking his lonely thoughts.

And he said: ‘Let there be peas!’

And there were peas.

And it was good.

And he put the peas in the garden

Saying unto them: ‘Increase and multiply,

Segregate and assort yourselves independently.’

And they did—filling the earth.

And it was good.

And it came to pass that

When Mendel gathered up his peas,

He divided them into round and wrinkled

And called the round dominant

And the wrinkled recessive

And it was good.

But now Mendel saw that

There were 450 round peas

And 102 wrinkled ones

This was not good

For the Law of Trinity stateth

That there shalt be only

Three round for every wrinkled!

And Mendel thought unto himself

‘Gott in himmel, an enemy hath done this!

He has sown bad seeds in my garden

Under the cover of the night!’

And Mendel smote the table

In righteous wrath saying:

‘Depart from I, ye accursed evil peas

Into the outer darkness

Where thou shalt be devoured

By bats and rats, pests and mice!’

And lo! and behold, it was done

And there remained 300 round peas

And 100 wrinkled peas. A ratio of

1:3=3:1 or the holy trinity of peas!

And it was good. It was very very good

And he published his creative power

Also known as the genesis of genetics.

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*Father Gregory Mendel is to Genetics what Darwin is to Evolution!