Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Gregor Johann Mendel, the ‘father of modern genetics’ was born 200 years ago on July 20, 1822. Scientists have advanced in genetics in leaps and bounds because of one individual who pursued in ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. When Gregor Mendel published the results of his experiments on pea plants in 1866 he initiated a fierce debate about ...

All of the different plants on Earth—from mango trees to marigolds—have come about thanks to the simple rules of genetic inheritance, which determine how traits are passed on from one generation to ...

The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics. Now 160 years on, an international research collaboration has used genomics, bioinformatics and ...

NH copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Contents Seeds of hero worship. To be a doctor ; To be an explorer ; To be a husband -- A tale of two books. Darwin's book : The ...