Gregor Mendel
Heredity's monastic founder
Gregor Mendel was a 19th-century Austrian monk whose experiments with pea plants established the basic principles of heredity.
His work on dominant and recessive traits, ignored during his lifetime, became foundational to modern genetics.
Mendel's name now attaches to the laws he discovered: Mendelian inheritance, Mendelian genetics.
Gene variant at one locus
- dominantHaving superior influence
- recessiveMasked unless paired identically
- genotypeOrganism's complete allele set
- phenotypeObservable characteristics of organism
inheritance · trait · gene · chromosome · hybridization · cross-pollination · pedigree · codominance
Of a fourth-century theologian
- friarMendicant order member
- monkCloistered religious devotee
- BrnoMoravian regional capital
- MoraviaCentral European historical region
Austrian · abbey · St. Thomas · 19th century · abbot · teacher · botanist · naturalist
Pod-bearing climbing vegetable
- garden peaEdible green legume seed
- wrinkledHaving surface folds
- smoothWithout roughness or difficulty
- greenColor of vegetation
yellow · pod · seed · cross-pollination · self-fertilization · hybridization · cultivation · flower color
One who begins something
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- rediscoveryFinding something previously known
- heredityGenetic trait transmission
- scientific methodStructured process for investigation
allele
Gene variant at one locus
- dominantHaving superior influence
- recessiveMasked unless paired identically
- genotypeOrganism's complete allele set
phenotype · inheritance · trait · gene · chromosome · hybridization · cross-pollination · pedigree · codominance · incomplete dominance
Augustinian
Of a fourth-century theologian
Moravia · Austrian · abbey · St. Thomas · 19th century · abbot · teacher · botanist · naturalist · pioneer
pea plant
Pod-bearing climbing vegetable
- garden peaEdible green legume seed
- wrinkledHaving surface folds
- smoothWithout roughness or difficulty
green · yellow · pod · seed · cross-pollination · self-fertilization · hybridization · cultivation · flower color · statistical analysis
founder
One who begins something
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- rediscoveryFinding something previously known
- heredityGenetic trait transmission
- Czech Scientists
- biologistsbiologist, molecular biologist, microbiologist, biochemist, evolutionary biologist
- evolutionevolution, natural selection, mutation, adaptation, speciation
- botany historyCarl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, herbarium, herbaria, botanical gardens
- Faithful Scientists
- German ScienceAlbert Einstein, Max Planck, Carl Gauss, Einstein, Heisenberg
Gregor MendelCharles Darwin
Louis Pasteur · Isaac Newton · Albert Einstein · Marie Curie
genetic, genetics, genetically, geneticist, geneticists, Mendel, Mendelian, Gregor