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 ...

John Innes Centre scientists have helped discover the key to one of biology's most well-known experiments - the gene that controls pea flower colour, used by Gregor Mendel in his initial studies of ...

The iconic pea plant experiments of Gregor Mendel laid the foundations for the science of genetics. Now 160 years on, an international research collaboration has used genomics, bioinformatics and ...

When scientists today work to decode the human genome, they use high-tech methods to view the microscopic chromosomes and even pluck individual genes out of a cell. But in Darwin's time, it was ...

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 ...

Though open to frightening ethical abuse, genetics has been a Christian vocation since Gregor Mendel did his famous pea-plant experiments in the mid-nineteenth century. If canonization as a saint were ...

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 ...

1865: Gregor Mendel reads his first paper on genetics to the local scientific organization. It will be decades before Mendel's intellectual seeds take root in the fertile grounds of Darwinism and grow ...