Microorganisms—bacteria, viruses and other tiny life forms—may drive biological variation in visible life as much, if not ...

This method of developing statistical expectations about inheritance data is one of the most significant contributions Mendel made to biology. But do all organisms pass their on genes in the same ...

But no one at the time understood the implications of Mendel's experiments. He soon left biology to focus on running his monastery. Only in 1900 was his work rediscovered. Only then did Mendel ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...

Mendel did excellent work ... In still other laboratories, Sutton merged cell biology and genetics to propose the radical idea (for the time, at least) that genes might actually be on chromosomes ...