Fun Facts About Gregor Mendel
He was born in a small town of Austria on July 22, 1822. The name of the town was Heizendorf. Today, this town has become a city, and it is a part of the Czech Republic.
Gregor Mendel studied botany, zoology, history, mathematics and physics in the University of Vienna. However, he failed physics and could not proceed further. He left his studies and joined a monastery to become a monk.
Gregor Mendel chose to study the pea plant because they had an extremely short life cycle. It was possible to study the changes in several generations of this plant, and the findings were also on a fast pace. This shows that Gregor Mendel was an intelligent and shrewd person.
Mendel grew more than 30 thousand pea plants in a span of fifteen years. He had names for his pea plants, and he assigned a single alphabetic character to each of the generation of pea plants. He observed several traits at multiple levels in the pea plant.
In 1866 Mendel published his work on heredity in the Journal of the Brno Natural History Society. It had absolutely no impact. The complex and detailed work he had produced was not understood even by influential people in his field.
Gregor Mendel died on January 6, 1884 due to chronic nephritis.
Gregor Mendel studied botany, zoology, history, mathematics and physics in the University of Vienna. However, he failed physics and could not proceed further. He left his studies and joined a monastery to become a monk.
Gregor Mendel chose to study the pea plant because they had an extremely short life cycle. It was possible to study the changes in several generations of this plant, and the findings were also on a fast pace. This shows that Gregor Mendel was an intelligent and shrewd person.
Mendel grew more than 30 thousand pea plants in a span of fifteen years. He had names for his pea plants, and he assigned a single alphabetic character to each of the generation of pea plants. He observed several traits at multiple levels in the pea plant.
In 1866 Mendel published his work on heredity in the Journal of the Brno Natural History Society. It had absolutely no impact. The complex and detailed work he had produced was not understood even by influential people in his field.
Gregor Mendel died on January 6, 1884 due to chronic nephritis.