Indeed, the founder of modern genetics was not fully appreciated for his ideas until decades after his death. His name was Gregor Mendel — and he loved breeding pea plants. "People that are in ...

Gregor Mendel's principles of inheritance form the cornerstone of modern genetics. So just what are they? When looking at the figure, notice that for each F 1 plant, the self-fertilization ...

That's what a team of scientists in the Czech Republic did this year to celebrate Gregor Mendel, a scientist and friar whose experiments in the mid-1800s laid the groundwork for modern genetics.

This work paved the way for all future research in the genetic sciences, including the discovery of DNA. But Mendel's contributions would not be recognized in his lifetime. In 1866, Mendel ...

The latter is what Gregor Mendel did. In the 1860s, much before the gene was discovered or the term ‘genetics’ was coined, Mendel, a monk of the order of St. Augustine, discovered the ...

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, a group of scientists decided to dig up his body and sequence his DNA. We're almost done with 2022 ...

The year 2022 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel. He's known as the father of genetics, so scientists exhumed Mendel's body... When the man known as "father of genetics" turns ...