Gregor mendel biography great discoveries and inventions
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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 near Brünn (now Brno, in the Czech Republic). He studied natural sciences and mathematics at the University of Vienna, Austria, but twice failed to obtain a teaching certificate, instead becoming a part-time assistant teacher and carrying out research in plant breeding.
His most famous experiments were done between and , during which time he grew some 10, pea plants. Pea plants are hermaphroditic, meaning they have both male and female sex cells and usually fertilise themselves. Mendel was able to cross-breed the plants by transferring pollen with a paintbrush. He meticulously recorded a range of characteristics for each plant, including its height, pod shape, pea shape and pea colour. When plants self-fertilised, these characteristics remained consistent in the offspring.
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Gregor Johann Mendel: From peasant to priest, pedagogue, and prelate
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Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian priest in the Monastery of St. Thomas in Brünn (Brno, Czech Republic) as well as a civilian employee who taught natural history and physics in the Brünn Modern School. The monastery’s secular function was to provide teachers for the public schools across Moravia. It was a cultural, educational, and artistic center with an elite core of friar-teachers with a well-stocked library and other amenities including a gourmet kitchen. It was wealthy, with far-flung holdings yielding income from agricultural productions. Mendel had failed his tryout as a parish priest and did not complete his examination for teaching certification despite 2 y of study at the University of Vienna. In addition to his teaching and religious obligations, Mendel carried out daily meteorological and astronomical observations, cared for the monastery's fruit orchard and beehives, and tended plants in the
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Gregor Mendel
Austrian friar and forskare (–)
Gregor Johann MendelOSA (; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel;[2] 20 July [3] – 6 January ) was an Austrian[4][5] biologist, meteorologist,[6] mathematician, Augustinianfriar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of the Austrian Empire (today's Czech Republic) and gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics.[7] Though farmers had known for millennia that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel's pea plant experiments conducted between and established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance.[8]
Mendel worked with sju characteristics of pea plants: plant height, pod shape and color, seed shape and color, and flower position and color. Taking seed color