In fact, the three principles of inheritance that Mendel laid out have had far greater impact than his original data from pea plant manipulations. To this day, scientists use Mendel's principles ...

Ironically, Darwin never found out. The results of Mendel's carefully designed and meticulously executed experiments, which involved nearly 30,000 pea plants followed over eight generations ...

At the turn of the 20th century, Gregor Mendel’s seminal 1866 paper on pea plants and the principles of inheritance resurfaced in the scientific community, thanks to a few intrepid botanists who had ...

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 ...

History demands that we not turn a blind eye to what is happening around us. As frustrating as it can be to wake up to this ...

Mendel had meticulously recorded the results of cross-breeding pea plants, and found a very regular statistical pattern for features like height and color. This introduced the concept of genes ...

Even though Mendel attempted on many occasions to contact renowned scientists, they struggled to understand him and his theories. Attempts to replicate his experiments also proved problematic.

The saintly father of genetics, Gregor Mendel, defined the laws of inheritance by studying pea plants. The list goes on. Today, with the advent of high-throughput sequencing, that legacy of firsts in ...