In fact, the three principles of inheritance that Mendel laid out have had far greater impact than his original data from pea plant manipulations. To this day, scientists use Mendel's principles ...

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Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...

The Father of Genetics. Like many great artists, the work of Gregor Mendel was not appreciated until after his death. He is now called the "Father of Genetics," but he was remembered as a gentle ...

He experimented on pea plants in an effort to understand how a parent passed physical traits to its offspring. In one experiment, Mendel crossbred a pea plant with wrinkled seeds and a pea plant ...

and above all the basic discovery of the laws of heredity he made while crossing pea lines. When his contribution was misunderstood by his contemporaries, Mendel turned to a number of other ...

Mendel had meticulously recorded the results of cross-breeding pea plants, and found a very regular statistical pattern for features like height and color. This introduced the concept of genes ...