Mendel

Pea plant experimenter

Gregor Mendel was a 19th-century Augustinian friar whose experiments with pea plants established the fundamental laws of heredity.

His work, ignored during his lifetime, became the foundation of modern genetics.

Mendelian inheritance describes traits passed through dominant and recessive genes according to predictable ratios: Mendelian genetics, Mendelian traits.

genetics

inheritance

Property received from ancestors

peasEdible pod seeds
traitsDistinguishing personal features
dominantHaving superior influence

recessive · alleles · genotype · phenotype · heredity · Punnett square · monohybrid · hybrid · cross-pollination · chromosomes

biography

monk

Cloistered religious devotee

AustrianFrom the Alpine republic
AugustinianOf a fourth-century theologian
BrnoMoravian regional capital

monastery · botanist · experiment · research · pioneer · 1860s · abbot · overlooked · rediscovery · St. Thomas

Categories

biologistsbiologist, geneticist, molecular biologist, microbiologist, biochemist
evolutionevolution, natural selection, mutation, adaptation, speciation
Biology HistoryDarwin, evolution, natural selection, cell theory, germ theory
Science Historyscientific revolution, natural philosophy, scientific method, scientific journals, Royal Society
botany historyCarl Linnaeus, Linnaeus, herbarium, herbaria, botanical gardens
Fiddler on the Rooffiddler, milkman, wedding canopy, matchmaking, Sholem Aleichem

Opposites

scientific methodology

MendelCharles Darwin

Darwin · naturalist · naturalists · Louis Pasteur · Watson and Crick

views on heredity mechanism

MendelLamarck

historical era of genetics

MendelFrancis Crick

Rosalind Franklin · Watson and Crick · molecular biologist · molecular biologists

Phrases

Gregor MendelFounder of genetic science

Family

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