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Gregor Johann Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel

Misja Prins
Biology II
I.B.
Period 3
12/14/96

Gregor Mendel was one of the first people in the history of science to
discover genetics. He independently discovered his work and lived in Brunn,
Czechoslovakia. In Brunn he was a monk and later the Abbot of the church in
Brunn. While he was in Brunn he performed many experiments with garden peas.
With the information he observed he wrote a paper where he described the
patterns of inheritance in terms of seven pairs of contrasting traits that
appeared in different pea-plant varieties. All of the experiments he performed
utilized the pea-plant, which in this case is the basis of the experiment.
Mendels work was reported at a meeting of the Brunn Society for the Study of
Natural Science in 1865, and was published the following year. Mendels paper
presented a completely new and unique documented theory of inheritances, but it
did not lead immediately to a cataclysm of genetic research. The scientists who
read his papers of complex theories, dismissed it because it could be explained
in such a simple model. He was rediscovered by Hugo de Vries in The Netherlands,
Carl C...

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