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By experimenting with pea plant breeding, Gregor Mendel developed three principles of inheritance that described the transmission of genetic traits before anyone knew exactly what genes were ...
The father of genetics couldn’t get anyone to listen to him — but he got the last laugh Gregor Mendel was disbelieved when he discovered genetics — until his work was rediscovered after he died ...
Google transformed its homepage this morning to celebrate what would have been the 189 th birthday of scientist and “father of genetics” Gregor Mendel. The pea-themed art celebrates Mendel’s ...
CHYBIK + KRISTOF have designed a greenhouse on the site of Gregor Mendel’s experiments that is informed by his laws of inheritence.
Two hundred years ago in July, Johann Mendel was born. He would come to be known as Gregor (the religious name he received upon entering the Augustinian Friars at St. Thomas' Abbey in Austria ...
Bloomington-Normal's most nationally recognized artist from the late 20th century found his muse in Illinois' often derided flat prairie landscapes.
Audi S8, Toyota Prius, Hyundai Elantra GT: Almost 140 years after Gregor Mendel first crossbred his Augustinian peas, automakers are still practicing the fine art of hybridization.
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, a group of scientists decided to dig up his body and sequence his DNA.
The frenetic, vibrantly colored abstract paintings of Gregor Gleiwitz capture the tenor of our emotional responses to the natural world.
The year 2022 was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel. He's known as the father of genetics, so scientists exhumed Mendel's body and examined his DNA.
IN 1865, an Austrian monk called Gregor Mendel, working to understand hybridisation, uncovered exquisitely simple and reliable patterns of inheritance in varieties of garden pea. In 1900, the ...
In a new exhibition, ‘Unseen Places’ at Kunst Haus Wien, Gregor Sailer looks back at 20 years of working in inaccessible landscapes, sealed-off territories and restricted military areas.