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Life of Gregor Mendel Mendel, Gregor Johann (1822-1884), Austrian monk, whose experimental work became the basis of modern heredity theory. Mendel was born on July 22, 1822, to a peasant family in Heinzendorf (now Hyncice, Czech Republic). In 1843 he entered the Augustinian monastery at Brünn (now Brno, Czech Republic), which was known as a centre of learning and scientific endeavour. He studied science as well as theology, and later attended the University of Vienna. On his return to Brünn he taught for a time at the local technical school and became actively engaged in investigating variation, heredity, and evolution in plants at the monastery's experimental garden. Between 1856 and 1863 Mendel cultivated and tested at least 28,000 pea plants, carefully analysing the inheritance patterns of seven pairs of seed and plant characteristics. He had an interest in hybridization, and was probably experimenting to determine whether new plant species could be obtained through...

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