Gregor Mendel. Computer artwork of the Austrian botanist Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884) with a pea plant and a strand of DNA (orange and red). Mendel discovered the basic laws of genetic heredity. He became an Augustinian monk in 1843,studied science in Vienna,Austria,during 1851-3 and was made an Abbot in 1868. During 1856-63 he bred pea plants (Pisum sp.) in his monastery garden. By crossing various pea strains he demonstrated that certain traits were inherited from the parent plants in a predictable way. He is considered to be the founder of genetics. Inherited traits are now known to be carried on DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) as the genetic code | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Laguna Design |
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