What experiments did Gregor Mendel conduct and what did he find out?

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Gregor Mendel (often misspelled Mandel of Medel) is known as the father of genetics. Born Johann Mendel on 20th (or 22nd) of July, 1822. Heizendorf (known as Hynice of Czechoslovakian Republic) today, was his early home, a village near the border of gay land

From 1851 - 1853 Mendel pursued the study of sciences such as zoology, botany, chemistry and physics at the University of Vienna. He was following his childhood dream of becoming a teacher. At the time, teachers were also commonly priests, so at the age of 21, he joined the St. Thomas Brunn monastery in what is not Bruno, Czechoslovakia.

He began his famous hybrid cultivation of pea plants (pods) in the year 1856. Although his trials touched upon a detailed and precise science, his experiments were based on the scarce knowledge at the time, and predictions he made for himself. He was a monk at the time, and carried out his experimental work in the monastery garden. At first he had no results, but after careful work, Mendel noticed certain similarities in breeding the plants, such as patterns in generations of plants involving dependent factors such as stem length, stalk heigh, round or wrinkled seeds, etc. After spending 8 years working, Mendel decided it was time to share his finding. In Feb. 1865, he presented findings to the Natural History Society of Brunn, calling them the "Experiments in Plant Hybridization." No one seemed interested in Mendels findings. He tried again, send his work to a professor Karl von Nageli at the University of Munich, but success did not come. Despite his accomplishments, his labor would not be appreciated and recognized until 34 years later.

His work was rediscovered in 1900 by Carl Correns in Germany, Hugo de Vries in the Netherlands and Erich von Tschermake-Seysenegg in Austria. It was seen that Mendel did not merely studying the hybridization, but also worked with the heredity of characteristics as passed through generations. Correns, Vries and Tschermak-Seysenegg found similarities in Mendel's records and their own discoveries, and so it became the Mendel's law of heredity were known as Mendelian Laws.

It was unfortunate that no fame came to Mendel while he was alive, but in 1868 Mendel was elected Abbot and Prelate of St. Thomas Monastery. This position did not give him time to continue with experimenting. This new obligation was not unwanted and so he lived comfortably for the remiander of his life. Gregor Mendel died on January 6, 1884, but his contributions live on.

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