Darwin, Mendel & the Story of Inheritance
General Learning Course
Natural selection, Mendel's rules and Photo 51 — how three separate discoveries turned into one theory of life.
Start here — the story
A young man sails around the world and comes home with a theory so dangerous he sits on it for twenty years. A monk counts twenty-eight thousand pea plants and is ignored for thirty-five. A woman photographs something no one has ever seen. None of them ever met. Together they explained life.
The Complete Guide to Darwin, Mendel & the Story of Inheritance — 6 chapters, about 15 minutes. You are not expected to know anything before you start.
What you’ll be able to explain
- Explain natural selection without the common misconceptions
- Explain Mendel's rules of inheritance
- Say what Photo 51 revealed and who revealed it
The assessed treatment is Pearson Edexcel International GCSE Biology Topic 3 (Reproduction and inheritance), which requires genetic diagrams, ratios and specific terminology. This is the story behind it.