You do not like peas!

George. More peas.

Give me that peashooter.

Should I bring the peas?

Locations of the Ahwar of Southern Iraq, World Heritage Site.

Around 20,000 Marsh Arabs live in southern Iraq.

The marshes today remain one of the poorest areas in Iraq.

Draws a rippling waves on a rotating wireframe grid. Written by Josiah Pease 2000.

Steaks for the Brophy boys with blackeyed peas. Burn 'em.

The wetlands span thousands of square miles in the middle of desert.

Alwash says he feels vindicated by the UNESCO listing.

Shortly after students tasted four types of peas in our program, one boy went grocery shopping with his mom, and he asked her to buy peas.

He'd much rather lay into your peas.

In the mid 1800s, Mendel spent sort of an unhealthy amount of time grubbing around in his garden with a bunch of pea plants, and through a series of experiments crossing the pea plants and seeing which traits got passed on and which didn't, he came up with a frame work for understanding how traits actually get passed from one generation to another.

And lots of things are more complicated than peas,

But the marshes that survived for thousands of years have taken a beating in recent decades. Iraqi governments since the 1950s began draining parts of the marshes to expand agriculture and drill for oil.

Much of the land along the Gulf Coast is, or was, marshland.

And he promptly took a snow pea and ate it.

Our party is complete, said Holmes, buttoning up his pea jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack.

like the color of pea flowers, for example, which is what Mendel studied when he discovered all of this stuff.

You sure can. And don't ever bring me back while that peapicker's here.

But since Saddam was toppled in 2003, there have been efforts to restore the suffering marsh ecosystems.

There are still threats to the marshes primarily from agricultural runoff as well as drought attributed to climate change.

Everything else is overcooked like crazy, but the beans are undercooked.

A few years ago, people were looking and laughing at me saying why do you want to restore the marshes?

So all the pea kids will be yellow heterozygous.

Here we are, in the heart of Germany, cut off from our families by the front, and here's a can of peas, direct from Paris.

In the 1980s, at war with Iran, Saddam Hussein sped up their destruction so the marshes couldn't serve as a refuge for fighters.

For example, besides being yellow or green, peas may be round or wrinkled.

Iraqi American environmentalist Azzam Alwash and Nature Iraq, the group he founded, have set up an eco camp in the heart of the marshes.

This triggers the pituitary gland, a pea sized gland found at the base of the brain, to release adrenocorticotropic hormone which then stimulates the adrenal gland sitting on top of the kidneys to release cortisol, the major stress hormone.

By breeding the pea plants he was growing in the monastery's garden, he discovered the principles that rule heredity.

While men in the marshes fish, women and girls do most of the manual labor including cutting and transporting the reeds.

Some students of ancient history believe the marshes, lined with reeds, teeming with fish and filled with birds, are the site of the biblical Garden of Eden.

On June 17, the UN cultural agency, UNESCO, added the marshlands and the ancient Sumerian cities that once flourished among them to its list of World Heritage Sites.

Depending on which type of allele Mendel found in each seed, we can have what we call a homozygous pea, where both alleles are identical, and what we call a heterozygous pea, when the two alleles are different.

The marshes are in one of the safer parts of Iraq, just a few hours from Basra, but there are few foreign visitors.

Inhabitants of the marshes known as the Ma dan share the floating islands where they build reed houses with domesticated water buffalo, usually a household s most valuable possession.

This combination of alleles is known as genotype and its result, being yellow or green, is called phenotype.

Grains, peas and rice, dating from the 14th century in present day Pakistan, which contain surahs engraved into them, are displayed in the museum.

The marshlands are on a main migratory bird path from Africa. With the water and fish stocks restored, pelicans, flamingoes and marbled teal ducks fill the skies.

Then, in the second generation, where the two heterozygous kids marry, their babies could have any of the three possible genotypes, showing the two possible phenotypes in a three to one proportion.

Instead of having a tray with two peas, I was hoping that they would go into the kitchen cabinet or the mother's handbag and do their museum quality design collection on a tray.

When Iraqi Shiites, Kurds, and Marsh Arabs rebelled against Hussein, they believed that American forces would protect them against their brutal dictator s superior firepower.

In low income countries, diets consist primarily of starches, such as rice, and legumes, like peas, that contain very little protein.