Mendel likely read Darwin's __Origin__ half-way through his pea experiments, so one can only speculate why he was marking the page. I like to think he was saying, "I can see the laws!" The exhibition ...

"My time will come," Mendel once said, but it was over 30 years before his work was appreciated. After the peas. In the years following the publication of his work, Mendel continued his interest ...

The patient monk carefully bred and cross-bred pea plants to see how a few ... Only in 1900 was his work rediscovered. Only then did Mendel -- who had worked without a microscope, without ...

Thus, through their work with pea plants, Bateson, Saunders, and Punnett discovered an apparent exception to one of Mendel's foundational proposals: the principle of independent assortment.

At the turn of the 20th century, Gregor Mendel’s seminal 1866 paper on pea plants and the principles of inheritance ... Mendel mania occurring among his contemporaries. “[Mendel’s work] was very ...

History demands that we not turn a blind eye to what is happening around us. As frustrating as it can be to wake up to this ...

Pea plants are hermaphroditic ... that offspring inherit one particle from each parent. Mendel was far ahead of his time, and his work was largely ignored for the next 35 years.