What can Gregor Mendel’s pea plants tell us about human disease? Single gene disorders, like Huntington’s disease and cystic fibrosis, actually follow Mendelian inheritance patterns. The ...

The year was 1900. Three European botanists — one Dutch, one German and one Austrian — all reported results from breeding experiments in plants. Each claimed that they had independently discovered ...

1. The basic principle in Mendel's discoveries is that of the purity of the germcells; in accordance with this a cross-bred animal or plant produces germ-cells bearing only one of each pair of ...

Pity Gregor Mendel. Far enough ahead of his peers that his work wasn't appreciated in his own lifetime. When the world was finally ready to deal with his results, the scientific community almost ...