Gregor Mendel's principles of inheritance form the cornerstone of modern genetics. So just what are they? When looking at the figure, notice that for each F 1 plant, the self-fertilization ...

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 ...

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 ...

Professor Noel Ellis has been awarded a prestigious honour in recognition of his long and distinguished service to the legacy ...

The obscure work of Moravian monk Gregor Mendel is brought to light and becomes a cornerstone in the emerging science of genetics. Mendel's notion that traits are passed down in discrete units ...

At the turn of the 20th century, Gregor Mendel’s seminal 1866 paper on pea plants and the principles of inheritance resurfaced in the scientific community, thanks to a few intrepid botanists who had ...

Within 20 years, the word was widely used by scientists who had rediscovered the work of Gregor Mendel. Mendel had meticulously ... opening the field of genetics to a tumultuous century of research.

Transposons, so-called jumping genes, are a threat to genomes, so plants work hard to prevent them from mobilizing and ...

the researchers identified genetic variants underlying climate adaptation in Marchantia polymorpha. The study, by the labs of Liam Dolan and Frédéric Berger at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI ...

the researchers identified genetic variants underlying climate adaptation in Marchantia polymorpha. The study, by the labs of Liam Dolan and Frédéric Berger at the Gregor Mendel Institute (GMI ...