Johann Mendel was born on July 20, 1822 in Heinzendorf bei Odrau, a small village in the Austrian Empire. Mendel’s parents were poor farmers who made many sacrifices to pay for his education. Mendel did well throughout his high school career and, at age 18, he entered the University of Olomouc in 1840. During his time at the University, Mendel studied mathematics, philosophy, and physics. In 1843, at age 21, Mendel experienced financial troubles. Professor Friedrich Franz, a physicist, advised Mendel to join the Abbey of St. Thomas in Brunn. If Mendel joined the Abbey as a monk then he would be able to continue studying science. Studying science would ensure that Mendel would be able to rid himself of his financial issues. Mendel being
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Mendel served as the administrator from 1863 until his death. Mendel continued his science and heredity studies. During his time at the University, Mendel made friends with two of his professors, Friedrich Franz who was a physicist and Johann Karl Nestler who was an agricultural biologist, who were also interested in heredity. Mendel’s monastery had a five acre garden where two former professors encouraged Gregor to pursue his interest in heredity by using the garden for his experiments. The main theory during Mendel’s time was that offspring were just a combination of the traits expressed in their parents.
Mendel set a very ambitious task of discovering the law of heredity. He embarked on a mammoth sized, systematic, eight year study of edible peas. Mendel carefully recorded all of the traits by every single plant throughout their successive generations. Mendel’s research included the growing and recording of about 30,000 pea plants. On some plants Mendel got the same results for every …show more content…
Mendel’s experiments involving one trait always had the same phenotypic ratio of 3:1. Other experiments conducted by Mendel involving two traits resulted in a ratio of 9:3:3:1. Mendel made the conclusion that the phenotype of each organism carries two different sets of information. If the two sets of information were different on the same phenotype then one of them was dominant over the other. Mendel’s research and findings helped other scientists to simplify the possibility of the emergence of traits to simple mathematical probability. Mendel only measured characteristics that were absolute such as color, shape, and the position of the offspring. Mendel expressed his findings numerically and subjected them to statistic analysis. Mendel’s method of recording his data as well as the large number of his experiments is what has lent much of the credibility to his
Mendel served as the administrator from 1863 until his death. Mendel continued his science and heredity studies. During his time at the University, Mendel made friends with two of his professors, Friedrich Franz who was a physicist and Johann Karl Nestler who was an agricultural biologist, who were also interested in heredity. Mendel’s monastery had a five acre garden where two former professors encouraged Gregor to pursue his interest in heredity by using the garden for his experiments. The main theory during Mendel’s time was that offspring were just a combination of the traits expressed in their parents.
Mendel set a very ambitious task of discovering the law of heredity. He embarked on a mammoth sized, systematic, eight year study of edible peas. Mendel carefully recorded all of the traits by every single plant throughout their successive generations. Mendel’s research included the growing and recording of about 30,000 pea plants. On some plants Mendel got the same results for every …show more content…
Mendel’s experiments involving one trait always had the same phenotypic ratio of 3:1. Other experiments conducted by Mendel involving two traits resulted in a ratio of 9:3:3:1. Mendel made the conclusion that the phenotype of each organism carries two different sets of information. If the two sets of information were different on the same phenotype then one of them was dominant over the other. Mendel’s research and findings helped other scientists to simplify the possibility of the emergence of traits to simple mathematical probability. Mendel only measured characteristics that were absolute such as color, shape, and the position of the offspring. Mendel expressed his findings numerically and subjected them to statistic analysis. Mendel’s method of recording his data as well as the large number of his experiments is what has lent much of the credibility to his