Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

It only took 141 years, but researchers report they have finally pinpointed one of the genes that Austrian monk Gregor Mendel manipulated in his pioneering experiments that established the basic laws ...

In 1859, Charles Darwin wrote in __On the Origin of Species__ that "the laws governing inheritance are quite unknown." Unknown to him maybe, but three years earlier, an obscure Augustinian friar was ...

Google transformed its homepage this morning to celebrate what would have been the 189 th birthday of scientist and “father of genetics” Gregor Mendel. The pea-themed art celebrates Mendel’s famous ...

Gregor Mendel features in today's Google doodle. Here are ten facts about him: 1) Gregor Mendel was born into a German family in the Austrian Empire which is now known as Czech Republic. He was ...