Mendel's microscope with a case of sample slides,in a library forming part of the Mendel museum commemorating the Austrian botanist Gregor Johann Mendel (1822-1884),founding father of genetics. The museum (Mendelianum) is housed in the Abbey of Saint Thomas,Brno,Czech Republic. Mendel was a former abbot of the Abbey. He conducted his breeding experiments with pea plants here,discovering the statistical laws of heredity. From his results,he postulated the existence of a unit of heredity that is now called the gene. A new exhibition,The Genius of Genetics,opened here in May 2002 | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / King-Holmes, James |
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