The realization that traits and certain diseases can be passed from parent to offspring stretches back at least to the ancient Greeks, well before any genome was actually decoded. People often said that people and other things showed that they were 'blended' and that they showed traits from mom and dad that were blended.
That changed when a monk from Austria noted that when he bred pea plants that different out comes were seen. He spent many years keeping notes and records for the monastery.
The first person to put heredity to the test was Gregor Mendel, who systematically tracked dominant and recessive traits in his famous pea plants. Mendel published his work on the statistics of genetic dominance in 1866 to little notice.
But the painstaking work of cross-breeding pea plants wouldn't be unnoticed for long. In 1869, Swiss physician Johannes Friedrich Miescher became the first scientist to isolate nucleic acids, the active ingredient of DNA. Now the ideas that Mendel proposed made sense.
Gregor Mendel was born on July 20, 1822.
Gregor Mendel traveled with other scientists to London.
Gregor Mendel spoke German as his native language.
Gregor Johann Mendel was born on July 20, 1822.
Gregor Mendel was Austrian.
Gregor Mendel is considered the father of modern genetics
Gregor Mendel is the father of genetics.He found the inheritance using pea plants.
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Gregor Mendel was a German monk.
Johann Gregor Mendel was from Austria.
His name was not Mendel Gregor, but his name was actually Gregor Mendel. He invented a law of heredity and genetics known as Mendel's Laws of Heredity. Do YOU like me?
Gregor Mendel was born on July 20, 1822.
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel was born on July 20, 1822.
Gregor Mendel was born on July 20, 1822
Gregor Mendel was born on July 20, 1822.
Gregor Mendel traveled with other scientists to London.