Mendel used this new generation of tall plants as the parents for a new cross. When these plants were crossed, the offspring were mostly tall plants like their parents, but around a quarter of ...

When scientists today work to decode the human genome, they use high-tech methods to view the microscopic chromosomes and even pluck individual genes out of a cell. But in Darwin's time, it was ...

Before Mendel's work, it was thought that an offspring's characteristics were determined by blending together and averaging the traits of its parents. But Mendel discovered that traits are determined ...

Mendel's groundbreaking discoveries revolutionized our understanding of how traits are passed from parents to offspring. His work provided a solid framework for the study of genetics and set the ...

A new paper reveals the extent to which Darwin's theory influenced Gregor Mendel in his famous discovery of the laws of inheritance.

A very important insight that underlies the science of genetics, namely that traits can be inherited by offspring from the parents, was first experimentally established by Gregor Mendel, a monk in ...

Johann Mendel was born in 1822, in a small village in the Austrian Empire, to a family of limited means. His farmer parents struggled to pay for his education, but despite this, young Mendel ...

Until 150 years ago, people believed that parents' characteristics blended together in their children. In the 1830s, Gregor Mendel, a Moravian monk, conducted experiments cross-breeding peas.

Today Gregor Mendel is a towering hero of biology, and yet during his own lifetime his ideas about heredity were greeted with deafening silence. In hindsight, it’s easy to blame his obscurity on ...

It’s hard to think of a scientist whose reputation is more squeaky-clean than the shy Austrian monk Gregor Mendel. His story invariably begins in the abbey garden, where from 1856 to 1863 he ...