- Gregor Mendel - Wikipedia
Gregor Johann Mendel OSA ( ˈmɛndəl ; German: [ˈmɛndl̩]; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; [3] 20 July 1822 [4] – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian [5][6] biologist, meteorologist, [7] mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia
- Gregor Mendel | Biography, Experiments, Facts | Britannica
Gregor Mendel, botanist, teacher, and Augustinian prelate, the first person to lay the mathematical foundation of the science of genetics, in what came to be called Mendelism
- Gregor Mendel Father of Modern Genetics - Biography, Children
Gregor Mendel, born in Austria in 1822, is known as the 'father of modern genetics' for his foundational work on hereditary principles through pea plant experiments
- Gregor Mendel - Biography, Facts and Pictures
Mendel set himself the very ambitious task of discovering the laws of heredity To achieve this, he embarked on a mammoth sized, highly systematic, eight year study of edible peas, individually and carefully recording the traits shown by every plant in successive generations
- Mendel, Johann (Gregor)
In his monastery garden, Mendel performed thousands of crosses with pea plants, discovering how characteristics are passed down from one generation to the next — namely, dominant and recessive traits Mendel’s early experiments provided the basis of modern genetics
- Mendel and His Legacy | Villanova University
Mendel established two principles of heredity that are now known as the law of segregation and the law of independent assortment, thereby proving the existence of paired elementary units of heredity and establishing the statistical laws governing them
- what was gregor mendel’s contribution to science
Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian friar, is widely recognized as the father of modern genetics
- Gregor Mendel and the Principles of Inheritance - Nature
By experimenting with pea plant breeding, Gregor Mendel developed three principles of inheritance that described the transmission of genetic traits before anyone knew exactly what genes were
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