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10 facts

about

Gregor Mendel

1. Gregor was

born as Johann Mendel on July 22, 1822 in the village of Heinzendorf in the Austrian Empire.

2. Mendel spent his early years working as a gardener until the local priest recognized his academic talents.

3. He studied

mathematics, physics, and

philosophy at Olomouc

University in 1841 .

4. However during his

studies his family was unable to support him financially and he had to tutor children to meet his ends which also put him in serious depression yet he excelled in his studies.

5. He got enrolled as a monk

with the Augustinian Order of St Thomas in Brno,

and it was here where he changed his name from Johann to Gregor.

6. In 1854 Gregor

conducted experiments on the

transmission of hereditary characters

in plants in the monastery’s 2 hectares garden, whose findings have now become the foundation of genetics.

7. The basic principles

of laws of inheritances

are also one of his most famous findings.

8. His work

was ignored until sixteen years

after his death and only began to the appreciated in 1900.

9. He died in 1884 at the age of 62.

10. The Gregor Mendel Institute

(GM) of Molecular Plant Biology,

which was founded in 2000, was named after him.

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