Gregor Mendel · Science

The Monk in the Garden

How an obscure Augustinian friar, working alone in a monastery garden with nothing but pea plants and patience, uncovered the hidden mathematical rules of heredity that the entire scientific world had missed - and was ignored for thirty-five years.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned how Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian friar in Brno, spent years breeding pea plants and counting their offspring, and that his quantitative, statistical approach to heredity was utterly unlike anything before it. Explain why Mendel’s background and method let him see patterns in inheritance that trained natur…

Leads to Carl Linnaeus.

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