From his first experiments with monohybrid crosses ... patterns similar to the seminal ones described by Mendel in the pea. In fact, the three principles of inheritance that Mendel laid out ...

Keeping the peas. Mendel did not set out to conduct the first well-controlled and brilliantly-designed experiments in genetics. His goal was to create hybrid pea plants and observe the outcome.

Ironically, Darwin never found out. The results of Mendel's carefully designed and meticulously executed experiments, which involved nearly 30,000 pea plants followed over eight generations ...

Mendel likely read Darwin's __Origin__ half-way through his pea experiments, so one can only speculate why he was marking the page. I like to think he was saying, "I can see the laws!" The exhibition ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...