On this day 200 years ago, Johann Mendel was born. He would come to be known as Gregor (the religious name he received upon entering St. Thomas's Abbey in Austria-Hungary as an Augustinian Friar ...

Eventually, permission was granted. He had an extraordinarily large brain 🧠 and was 168 cm tall.🚶‍♂️We are talking about the founder of genetics, Gregor Johann Mendel.

St Thomas’s Abbey (where Gregor Johann Mendel was an abbot) and Garden of Mendel in Brno Czech Republic. Photo Credits: Professor Arkaja Goswami. WE Castle wrote in his article ‘Mendel’s Law ...

4) Johann Mendel took the name Gregor upon entering his religious life. 5) Theories of heredity are attributed to Gregor Mendel – he illustrated this with experiments on pea plants to begin with.

Eventually, permission was granted. He had an extraordinarily large brain 🧠 and was 168 cm tall.🚶‍♂️We are talking about the founder of genetics, Gregor Johann Mendel.