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 resulted in ...

Today, Gregor Mendel and his pea plants are part of the canon of modern science. Every high school biology student learns the story of the monk who cross-bred pea plants in the abbey gardens and ...

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.

One of the great ‘what if’ questions that has fascinated historians of biology is how differently Darwinian evolution would have been received had Darwin known of the work of Gregor Mendel, the ...

Il botanico tedesco J. K. Koelreuter era sulla buona strada già prima della fine del ‘700. Aveva incrociato garofani bianchi e garofani rossi ottenendo piante ibride con fiori rosa, il colore di mezzo ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through science decades later. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of ...