Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

A monastery garden in the mid-1800s became the birthplace of genetics. Gregor Mendel, a friar, studied pea plants. He ...

In 1857, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel began growing peas in the garden of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Mendel’s experiments would lead ...

The history of science is full of tales of unappreciated genius. Indeed, the founder of modern genetics was not fully appreciated for his ideas until decades after his death. His name was Gregor ...

All of the different plants on Earth—from mango trees to marigolds—have come about thanks to the simple rules of genetic inheritance, which determine how traits are passed on from one generation to ...

Reprinted from: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 109, no. 6 (Aug. 18, 1965). siris_sil_593545 ...