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Gregor Mendel, known as the "father of modern genetics," was born in Austria in 1822. A monk, Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments in his monastery's garden.
Gregor Mendel (born July 20, 1822, Heinzendorf, Silesia, Austrian Empire [now Hynčice, Czech Republic]—died January 6, 1884, Brünn, Austria-Hungary [now Brno, Czech Republic]) was a botanist, teacher, and Augustinian prelate, the first person to lay the mathematical foundation of the science of genetics, in what came to be called Mendelism.
Gregor Johann Mendel OSA (/ ˈ m ɛ n d əl /; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel; [2] 20 July 1822 [3] – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian-Czech [4] biologist, meteorologist, [5] mathematician, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia.
Gregor Mendel (July 20, 1822 - January 6, 1884), known as the Father of Genetics, is most well-known for his work with breeding and cultivating pea plants, using them to gather data about dominant and recessive genes.
Gregor Mendel, (born July 22, 1822, Heinzendorf, Austria—died Jan. 6, 1884, Brünn, Austria-Hungary), Austrian botanist and plant experimenter who laid the mathematical foundation of the science of genetics. He became an Augustinian monk in 1843 and later studied at the University of Vienna.
Gregor Mendel was born in Hyncice, then part of the Austrian Empire (now modern Czech Republic) on 20 July 1822. His parents were farmers and Mendel was brought up on the family farm where he learnt gardening and beekeeping.
Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884) was an Austrian monk whose studies of the inheritance of traits in pea plants helped to lay the foundation for the later development of the field of genetics.
However, neither Mendel himself nor his family respected this date and consistently gave the date of baptism instead of the date of birth. Our conclusion: Mendel was born on July 20 and baptized on July 22, 1822.
Gregor Mendel Born: Jul 22, 1822 in Heinzendorf bei Odrau, Austrian Empire (Now Czech Republic) Died: Jan 6, 1884 (at age 61) in Brno, Austria-Hungary (Now Czech Republic)
He was born on July 22, 1822, to a poor farming family who lived in a village in Northern Moravia, which is now part of the Czech Republic. His family valued education but had little...