Gregor Mendel, botanist, teacher, and Augustinian prelate, the first person to lay the mathematical foundation of the science of genetics, in what came to be called Mendelism. His monumental achievements were not well known during his lifetime. He gained
It took some three decades before the Mendelian theory was sufficiently developed to find its rightful place in evolutionary theory. The distinction between a characteristic and its determinant was not consistently made by Mendel or by his successors, the early Mendelians. In 1909 Danish botanist ...
Mendelian inheritance, principles of heredity formulated by Austrian-born botanist, teacher, and Augustinian prelate Gregor Mendel in 1865. These principles form what is known as the system of particulate inheritance by units, or genes. Mendel’s laws in