Gregor Mendel - Wikipedia Gregor Johann Mendel ( ˈmɛndəl ; German: [ˈmɛndl̩]; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; [3] 20 July 1822 [4] – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian [5][6] biologist, meteorologist, [7] mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia
Mendel’s Experiments – Introductory Biology Mendel’s seminal work was accomplished using the garden pea, Pisum sativum, to study inheritance This species naturally self-fertilizes, meaning that pollen encounters ova within the same flower
Mendels 3 Laws (Segregation, Independent Assortment, Dominance) Mendel believed that heredity is the result of discrete units of inheritance, and every single unit (or gene) was independent in its actions in an individual’s genome According to this Mendelian concept, the inheritance of a trait depended on the passing-on of these units
Gregor Mendel - Biography, Facts and Pictures Mendel set himself the very ambitious task of discovering the laws of heredity To achieve this, he embarked on a mammoth sized, highly systematic, eight year study of edible peas, individually and carefully recording the traits shown by every plant in successive generations
Gregor Mendel - Genetics, Peas, Experiments | Britannica Mendel suspected that traits were inherited as discrete units, and, although he knew nothing of the physical or chemical nature of genes at the time, his units became the basis for the development of the present understanding of heredity
Gregor Mendel | Hartl Laboratory He proposed the existence of material hereditary elements (now called genes) that undergo segregation and independent assortment Overshadowing the creative brilliance of Mendel's work is the fact that it was virtually ignored for 34 years