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Gregor Mendel's 189th Birthday

Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822[1] – January 6, 1884) was a Czech-German Augustinian friar and scientist, who gained posthumous fame as the figurehead of the new science of genetics for his study of the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants. Mendel showed that the inheritance of these traits follows particular laws, which were later named after him. The significance of Mendel's work was not recognized until the turn of the 20th century. The independent rediscovery of these laws formed the foundation of the modern science of genetics.[2]

Gregor Mendel's 189th Birthday

Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 - January 6, 1884), a German Augustinian monk and a Czech scientist, who has inherited some features of the new science of genetics to the study of the posthumous reputation as a puppet thymtr plants get. Mendel showed that inheritance symptoms, especially in the law, which was later named after him. At the turn of the 20th century, the importance of Mendel recognized. Independent rediscovery of the laws of genetics established by modern science.

Gregor Johann MENDEL was an Austrian monk and biologist whose work on heredity became the basis of the modern theory of genetics.

Mendel was born on July 22, 1822 in Heizendorf, Austria, (now known as Hyncice in Czechoslovakia). He was born Johann Mendel into a poor farming family. At that time it was difficult for poor families to obtain a good education and the young Mendel saw the only way to escape a life of poverty was to enter the monastery at Brunn in Moravis, (now Brno in Czechoslovakia). Here he was given the name Gregor. This monastery was the Augustinian Order of St Thomas, a teaching order with a reputation as a centre of learning and scientific enquiry.