Gregor Johann Mendel OSA (/ ˈmɛndəl /; German: [ˈmɛndl̩]; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; [2] 20 July 1822 [3] – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian [4][5] biologist, meteorologist, [6] mathematician, …

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.

Apr 23, 2025 · 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.

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 …

Aug 3, 2023 · Mendel believed that heredity is the result of discrete units of inheritance, and every single unit (or gene) was independent in its actions in an individual’s genome. According to …

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 …

6 days ago · 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, …

Apr 2, 2014 · Gregor Mendel, known as the "father of modern genetics," was born in Austria in 1822. A monk, Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments in his …

This year we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Johann Mendel, who discovered the missing component of Darwin’s evolutionary theory, the genetic mechanism of …

Oct 21, 2025 · Mendel’s methodology established a prototype for genetics that is still used today for gene discovery and understanding the genetic properties of inheritance. Mendel’s genes …