Gregor Mendel's principles of inheritance form the cornerstone of modern genetics. So just what are ... on genes in the same way as the garden pea plant? The answer to that question is no, but ...

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 ...

Like many great artists, the work of Gregor Mendel was not appreciated ... brilliantly-designed experiments in genetics. His goal was to create hybrid pea plants and observe the outcome.

In one of the great triumphs of scientific experimentation, Austrian biologist and monk Johann Gregor ... pea plants to see how a few specific traits -- height was one -- were passed down. When ...