Like many great artists, the work of Gregor ... fuchsias and pea plants. Keeping the peas. Mendel did not set out to conduct the first well-controlled and brilliantly-designed experiments 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 ...

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 ...

On New Year's Eve, 1866, Gregor Mendel wrote to the prominent Swiss botanist Carl Nägeli to tell him about his now classic experiments with Pisum peas. In the margins of the letter, Nägeli scribbled a ...

In one of the great triumphs of scientific experimentation, Austrian biologist and monk Johann Gregor Mendel ... executed experiments, which involved nearly 30,000 pea plants followed over ...