biography
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Mendel, Gregor (Johann)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1822–84)
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| biography:
| Biologist and botanist, born in Heinzendorf, N Austria. Entering an Augustinian cloister in 1843, he was ordained a priest in 1847. After studying science at Vienna (1851–3), he became abbot at Brno (1868). He researched the inheritance characters in plants, especially edible peas, and his experiments in hybridity in plants led to the formulation of his laws of segregation and independent assortment (1866). His principle of factorial inheritance and the quantitative investigation of single characters have provided the basis for modern genetics. Recognition came many years after his death, when his key article, ‘Experiments with plant hybrids’ (1866), was discovered. |
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