In 1857, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel began growing peas in the garden of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Mendel’s experiments would lead ...

In 1859, Charles Darwin wrote in __On the Origin of Species__ that "the laws governing inheritance are quite unknown." Unknown to him maybe, but three years earlier, an obscure Augustinian friar was ...

Gregor Mendel, an Austrian scientist who lived and conducted much of his most important research in a Czechoslovakian monastery, established the basis of modern genetic science. He experimented on pea ...

Here you will learn about the basics of Gregor Mendel's experiments, which defined the basic patterns of inheritance. We will also examine Morgan's early experiments on linkage and the discovery of ...

Situated on the foundations of the 19th-century greenhouse where Austrian monk Gregor Mendel conducted history-changing genetic experiments with peas, a new glass structure will host lectures, ...

Reprinted from: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 109, no. 6 (Aug. 18, 1965). siris_sil_593545 ...