When conducting his experiments, Mendel designated the two pure-breeding parental generations involved in a particular cross as P 1 and P 2, and he then denoted the progeny resulting from the ...

Here's some of what Gregor Mendel's experiments revealed: If you cross a 1-foot pea plant with the 6-foot pea plant, you get plants that are either 1 foot tall or 6 feet tall, not a meet in the ...

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 ...

Here's some of what Gregor Mendel's experiments revealed: If you cross a 1-foot pea plant with the 6-foot pea plant, you get plants that are either 1 foot tall or 6 feet tall, not in-between, ...

The exhibition's most endearing items are numerous bits of Mendel's personal scientific belongings and correspondences. Although Mendel did not have any scientific degree, he was educated at the ...

With his laws in hand, Mendel turned to other plants in an attempt to see just how general they were. One of them obeyed the law; the other cross turned into a technical nightmare of low fertility ...

Gregor Mendel’s long lost manuscript on his pea-breeding experiments is the object of a tug of war between his relatives and the monastic order to which he belonged.

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 ...