Gregor Mendel, OSA (1822-1884), founder of scientific genetics.
Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk and part-time school teacher, undertook a series of brilliant hybridisation experiments with garden peas between 1857 and 1864 in the monastery gardens and, using statistical methods for the first time in biology, established the laws of heredity, thereby establishing the discipline of genetics.
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Department of Child Health, University of Bristol, Southmead, UK. P.M.Dunn@bristol.ac.uk
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