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Gregor Johann Mendel OSA (/ ˈ m ɛ n d əl /; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian-Czech biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia.
Jul 20, 1998 · 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. His monumental achievements were not well known during his lifetime.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk who discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments in his garden. Mendel's observations became the foundation of modern genetics and the...
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Learn how Mendel discovered the laws of inheritance by breeding pea plants and how his work laid the foundation of modern genetics. Explore the concepts of dominant and recessive traits, monohybrid and dihybrid crosses, and the principle of uniformity.
Aug 17, 2019 · Learn about the life and work of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics, who discovered dominant and recessive genes through his experiments with pea plants. Find out how his research contributed to the modern science of genetics and the theory of evolution.
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Gregor Mendel, (born July 22, 1822, Heinzendorf, Austria—died Jan. 6, 1884, Brünn, Austria-Hungary), Austrian botanist and plant experimenter who laid the mathematical foundation of the science of genetics. He became an Augustinian monk in 1843 and later studied at the University of Vienna.
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 ...
