Gregor Mendel

He was a monk.

Mendel's discovery, known as Mendelian inheritance, is the fundamental principle that traits are inherited independently of one another through discrete units called genes. He found that traits are inherited in predictable patterns, with some being dominant and others recessive. His experiments on pea plants laid the foundation for modern genetics.

Gregor Mendel used pea plants to study inheritance patterns and develop the basic principles of genetics. By carefully crossing different varieties of pea plants and analyzing the traits displayed in the offspring, Mendel was able to deduce the laws of heredity that laid the groundwork for modern genetics.

well they have been working on this "invention" for the past 10 years. it is the #1 invention they have spend the most money on. some biologists are taking the DNA of a human being. and they are looking through the bases and chromosomes and looking for "the mistake". in other words they are trying to find where the root of the cancer/disease comes from. once they find it they are going to cut it off. and prevent cancer in that genetics.

further more, they would like to mess around and change the hair color. and what so not.

Mendel discovered three principles of heredity: the Law of Segregation (allele pairs separate during gamete formation), the Law of Independent Assortment (genes for different traits are inherited independently), and the Law of Dominance (some alleles are dominant over others).

No, Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, was a friar and lived a celibate life as a monk in the Augustinian order. He dedicated his life to his scientific research on plant genetics and pea plants.

Yes. An older sister and a younger sister.

Gregor Mendel proposed the principles of heredity by studying the inheritance of traits in pea plants. He discovered that traits are passed down from parents to offspring in a predictable manner and that certain traits can be dominant or recessive. Mendel's work laid the foundation for the field of genetics.

Mendel is the so-called "Father of Genetics" for his work with pea plants. His work, although years before the discovery of DNA as the hereditary material, laid the foundation for modern genetics.

Gregor Mendel developed the model of heredity that now bears his name by experiments on various charactersitics of pea plants: height (tall vs. Short); seed color (yellow vs. Green); seat coat (smooth vs. wrinkled), etc

Peas

Gregor Mendel conducted experiments on pea plants to study the patterns of inheritance of traits. He crossed peas with different traits, like round vs. wrinkled seeds or yellow vs. green seeds, and carefully analyzed the offspring to understand how traits are passed from one generation to the next. Mendel's work laid the foundation for the field of genetics.

Mendel was cross-breeding plants. His work with pea plants supported Darwin. I guess he was a plant geneticist.

Mendel studied with peas (and flowers and flies) the transmission of genetic information from one generation two the next... only looking at a special trait, where there are only two main possibilies how it could appear... to be able to notice the changes. You have to distinguish the genotype (transmitted genetic form) and the phaenotype (those transmitted traits visible because of the appearance). Because if the trait is dominant its enough if only one parent transmitted it (both would be O.K., too) - if the trait is recessive, then both parents have to transmit this recessive trait, in other cases the dominant one is at least one time present and opresses the recessive one.

They Self-fertilize. -Apex

Mendel noticed that offspring traits were inherited independently from each other, meaning that individual traits were not blended together but rather passed on in distinct, predictable patterns. This led to the discovery of Mendel's laws of inheritance, which form the basis of modern genetics.

Gregor Mendel conducted his research on pea plants in Austria.

Try Biography of Gregor Mendel. It has some decent pictures of Mendel and the garden where he planted his peas.

Gregor Mendel used controlled breeding experiments with pea plants to study inheritance. He crossed different varieties that displayed contrasting traits and carefully analyzed the patterns of inheritance in the offspring generations. Through these controlled experiments, he was able to establish the principles of heredity.

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Gregor Mendel

DOB: July 20, 1822

DOD: January 6, 1884

Profession: Genetics

Birthplace: Hyncice, Moravia (now Czech Republic)

Personal History:

Gregor Mendel was born into an ethnic German family. He is the son of Anton and Rosin Mendel. They lived and worked on a farm, which the Mendel family owned for at least 130 years. Gregor Mendel was a priest, teacher, and gardener and he was never married.

Remembered for:

Gregor Mendel was remembered for discovering genetics in 1851. Mendel showed that the inheritance of traits follows particular laws [which were later named after him]. The significance of Mendel's work wasn't recognized until the turn of the 20th century. Its rediscovery prompted the foundation of the discipline of genetics.

Gregor Mendel is known as the father of modern genetics for his groundbreaking work on pea plants. Through his experiments, Mendel discovered the principles of inheritance, including the concepts of dominant and recessive traits, which laid the foundation for the field of genetics. His work provided a systematic framework for understanding how traits are passed down from generation to generation.

Mendel studied sweet peas. He studied the inheriance of certain traits in pea plants. His studies of the passing of certain traits formed the basis for our understanding of dominant and recessive genes in plants and animals.

The theories of heredity attributed to Gregor Mendel, based on his work with pea plants, are well known to students of biology. But his work was so brilliant and unprecedented at the time it appeared that it took thirty-four years for the rest of the scientific community to catch up to it. The short monograph, Experiments with Plant Hybrids, in which Mendel described how traits were inherited, has become one of the most enduring and influential publications in the history of science. Mendel, the first person to trace the characteristics of successive generations of a living thing, was not a world-renowned scientist of his day. Rather, he was an Augustinian monk who taught natural science to high school students. He was the second child of Anton and Rosine Mendel, farmers in Brunn, Moravia. Mendel's brilliant performance at school as a youngster encouraged his family to support his pursuit of a higher education, but their resources were limited, so Mendel entered an Augustinian monastery, continuing his education and starting his teaching career. Mendel's attraction to research was based on his love of nature. He was not only interested in plants, but also in meteorology and theories of evolution. Mendel often wondered how plants obtained atypical characteristics. On one of his frequent walks around the monastery, he found an atypical variety of an ornamental plant. He took it and planted it next to the typical variety. He grew their progeny side by side to see if there would be any approximation of the traits passed on to the next generation. This experiment was "designed to support or to illustrate Lamarck's views concerning the influence of environment upon plants." He found that the plants' respective offspring retained the essential traits of the parents, and therefore were not influenced by the environment. This simple test gave birth to the idea of heredity. Mendel's research reflected his personality. Once he crossed peas and mice of different varieties "for the fun of the thing," and the phenomena of dominance and segregation "forced themselves upon notice." He saw that the traits were inherited in certain numerical ratios. He then came up with the idea of dominance and segregation of genes and set out to test it in peas. It took seven years to cross and score the plants to the thousand to prove the laws of inheritance! From his studies, Mendel derived certain basic laws of heredity: hereditary factors do not combine, but are passed intact; each member of the parental generation transmits only half of its hereditary factors to each offspring (with certain factors "dominant" over others); and different offspring of the same parents receive different sets of hereditary factors. Mendel's work became the foundation for modern genetics. The impact of genetic theory is no longer questioned in anyone's mind. Many diseases are known to be inherited, and pedigrees are typically traced to determine the probability of passing along an hereditary disease. Plants are now designed in laboratories to exhibit desired characteristics. The practical result of Mendel's research is that it not only changed the way we perceive the world, but also the way we live in it.