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2 unusual facts about Gregor Mendel


Adoption detective

The biological science of genetics, which began with the work of Gregor Mendel in the mid-nineteenth century, seeks to understand the process of inheritance and the physical basis for heredity in our DNA.

Snow pea

Austrian scientist and monk Gregor Mendel used peas which he called "Pisum saccharatum" in his famous experiments demonstrating the heritable nature of specific traits, though this may not refer to the same varieties identified with modern snow peas.


Genetic linkage

Genetic linkage was first discovered by the British geneticists William Bateson, Edith Rebecca Saunders and Reginald Punnett shortly after Mendel's laws were rediscovered.

Hilda Geiringer

While in Turkey, Geiringer became intrigued with the basic principles of genetics formulated by Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel.

Lindley Darden

For example, Darden examines the Mendelian "Theory of the Gene," which underwent significant theoretical modifications from around 1900 (when Mendel was "rediscovered") to 1926 (when Thomas Hunt Morgan published his famous textbook defining Mendelian theory in its roughly modern form).

Svatopluk Čech Bridge

During occupation of Czech lands by Nazis name of the bridge was changed (1940–45) to Mendel Bridge (Mendelův most), after Gregor Mendel (of German ethnicity).


see also

Gregor-Mendel-Gymnasium Amberg

The Gregor-Mendel-Gymnasium (GMG, Gregor Mendel High School) is a national, public gymnasium in Amberg, Bavaria.

Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy

The school building was immediately taken over by the Augustinians, who established Gregor Mendel High School.

Mendel Polar Station

Johann Gregor Mendel Czech Antarctic Station (Mendelova polární stanice in Czech) is a Czech research station built in Antarctica, on the coast of James Ross Island.