LIKE PEAS IN A POD: This photographic plate from Raphael Weldon’s 1902 article displays the spectrum of pea color variation as a critique of Gregor Mendel’s binary categorization of yellow and green.

Lima, Peru, Jul 21, 2011 / 16:03 pm Internet giant Google paid homage to Austrian priest and biologist Father Gregor Mendel, considered the father of modern genetics. The design that appeared on ...

Gregor Johann Mendel, considered by many the ‘father of modern genetics’, was born 200 years ago, on 20 July 1822. In commemoration of this milestone, this Nature Collection brings together ...

In this episode, we’ll learn about Gregor Mendel, who used pea plants to study genetics. All of the different plants on Earth—from mango trees to marigolds—have come about thanks to the ...

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 ...