In fact, the three principles of inheritance that Mendel laid out have had far greater impact than his original data from pea plant manipulations. To this day, scientists use Mendel's principles ...

The patient monk carefully bred and cross-bred pea plants to see how a few specific traits -- height was one -- were passed down. When Mendel bred a tall plant to a short one, all of the offspring ...

For eight years, Mendel cultivated thousands of pea plants and used a paintbrush to painstakingly transfer pollen from one plant to another to make his crosses (all the while still attending to ...

Mendel was able to cross-breed the plants by transferring pollen with a paintbrush. He meticulously recorded a range of characteristics for each plant, including its height, pod shape, pea shape ...