Welcome to Nova – Mendel’s Minions

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Gregor Johann Mendel (1822 – 1884) was a scientist, meteorologist, mathematician, biologist, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas’ Abbey in Brno, Margraviate of Moravia. He gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Though farmers had known for millennia that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel’s pea plant experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. (text adapted from wikipedia).

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Gregor Mendel making observations in peas (Image obtained from genoma.com)