Gregor Mendel Was An Austrian Monk, Whose Experimental Work Became

Term Paper Title	Gregor Mendel Was An Austrian Monk, Whose Experimental Work Became
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Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk, whose experimental work became
the steeping stones for the field of heredity,today.
Mendel was born on July 22, 1822, to a poor family in Heinzendorf
(which is now Hyncice, Czech Republic). He entered the Augustinian
monastery at Brünn (which is now Brno, Czech Republic), which was
known as a center of learning and scientific research. He later became a
teacher at the technical school in Brünn. There Mendel became
interested in investigating variation, heredity, and evolution in plants at
the monastery's experimental garden. Between 1856 and 1863 he grew
and tested at least 28,000 pea plants, carefully analyzing seven pairs of
seed and plant characteristics. His expensive and time-consuming
experiments resulted in generalizations that later became known as the
laws of heredity, or Mendel’s Laws. His observations also led him to coin
two terms still used in present-day genetics: dominance, for a trait that
shows up in an offspring; and recessiveness, for a trait masked

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