What did people think about traits before Mendel? Before Mendel, people believed that the traits of offspring were simply blends of their parents e.g tall + short parent = medium offspring What did Mendel discover about traits of pea plants? Tall pea plant + short pea plant = all tall offspring pea plants. From this he figured out each parent must have a unit passed directly to the offspring that determine height. We call those units genes.
The average domestic cat lifespan comes out to 15.1 years. Breed is certainly a factor. We could list out each breed, but then weâd be here forever. Our research suggests that mixed breed cats are, in general, hardier and live longer than purebred cats.
97. The oldest recorded age for a cat is 34 years. The conditions in which a cat lives will greatly affect its lifespan. It is not unusual for a house cat to reach 15 years or even 20 years of age, whereas an intact tomcat living in the wild has an average life expectancy of about 3 years.