Friday, July 22, 2011

Gregor Mendel : Man of this Week

Gregor Mendel, who is known as the "father of modern genetics"


Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822[1] – January 6, 1884) was an Austrianscientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits inpea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. Although the significance of Mendel's work was not recognized until the turn of the 20th century, the independent rediscovery of these laws formed the foundation of the modern science of genetics.

Courtesy : Wikipedia, PSCTrainer

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