Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of genetics, poses for a photograph circa 1860. Between 1856-1863, Mendel bred almost ...

In 1857, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel began growing peas in the garden of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Mendel’s experiments would lead ...

Google transformed its homepage this morning to celebrate what would have been the 189 th birthday of scientist and “father of genetics” Gregor Mendel. The pea-themed art celebrates Mendel’s famous ...

That's what a team of scientists in the Czech Republic did this year to celebrate Gregor Mendel, a scientist and friar whose experiments in the mid-1800s laid the groundwork for modern genetics.

Gregor Mendel, an Austrian scientist who lived and conducted much of his most important research in a Czechoslovakian monastery, established the basis of modern genetic science. He experimented on pea ...

It only took 141 years, but researchers report they have finally pinpointed one of the genes that Austrian monk Gregor Mendel manipulated in his pioneering experiments that established the basic laws ...

On this day 200 years ago, Johann Mendel was born. He would come to be known as Gregor (the religious name he received upon entering St. Thomas's Abbey in Austria-Hungary as an Augustinian Friar) and ...

A long lost manuscript, one of the most important in the history of modern biology, has resurfaced as part of a dispute over its ownership. The manuscript is the account by Gregor Mendel of the ...

When the man known as "father of genetics" turns 200, how do you celebrate? By digging up his body and sequencing his DNA, of course. That's what a team of scientists in the Czech Republic did this ...