Like many great artists, the work of Gregor Mendel was not appreciated ... many hours a day breeding fuchsias and pea plants. Keeping the peas. Mendel did not set out to conduct the first well ...

In one of the great triumphs of scientific experimentation, Austrian biologist and monk Johann Gregor ... pea plants to see how a few specific traits -- height was one -- were passed down. When ...

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 ...