Gregor Mendel described his experiments with pea plants and proved that genes are transmitted in discrete units, with certain ...

The history of science is full of tales of unappreciated genius. Indeed, the founder of modern genetics was not fully appreciated for his ideas until decades after his death. His name was Gregor ...

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.

A monastery garden in the mid-1800s became the birthplace of genetics. Gregor Mendel, a friar, studied pea plants. He ...

IN 1865, an Austrian monk called Gregor Mendel, working to understand hybridisation, uncovered exquisitely simple and reliable patterns of inheritance in varieties of garden pea. In 1900, the patterns ...