Gregor Mendel

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Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884)

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Although Gregor Mendel had published his article on the genetics of peas in 1865, Mendel's paper was largely forgotten for more than a generation – not rediscovered by other scientists until 1899. Source: Internet

Aided by the rediscovery at the start of the 1900s of Gregor Mendel 's earlier work, Boveri was able to point out the connection between the rules of inheritance and the behaviour of the chromosomes. Source: Internet

A simple example to illustrate genotype as distinct from phenotype is the flower colour in pea plants (see Gregor Mendel ). Source: Internet

Gregor Mendel discovered the genetic laws of inheritance by studying inherited traits such as shape in Pisum sativum ( peas ). Source: Internet

That said, simple biology--evident since Gregor Mendel started breeding his pea plants in the 19th century--dictates that the random mix of genetic traits within any one population will be amplified when that population starts breeding. Source: Internet

Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel: two great giants of biological sciences. Source: Internet

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