In fact, the three principles of inheritance that Mendel laid out have had far greater impact than his original data from pea plant manipulations. To this day, scientists use Mendel's principles ...

He was at home in the monastery's botanical garden where he spent many hours a day breeding fuchsias and pea plants. Keeping the peas. Mendel did not set out to conduct the first well-controlled ...

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 ...