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 ...

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 ...

This is where Gregor Mendel, a friar at the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas, spent eight growing seasons (1856-63) cultivating and breeding as many as 10,000 pea plants (Pisum sativum), and ...