And Darwin knew that the lack of an explanation for heredity left a big gap in his ... Austrian biologist and monk Johann Gregor Mendel, Darwin's contemporary, solved this problem in the mid ...

Even after many geneticists had accepted Mendel’s laws, confusion lingered regarding the maintenance of genetic variation in natural populations. Some opponents of the Mendelian view contended ...

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 ...

"may constitute the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity." With these words, Sutton first articulated what is now known as the chromosome theory of inheritance. Confirming the ...

Many discrepancies between theoretical and empirical inheritance-ratios are due to latency, and care should be taken to investigate the possible latencies which may be present before declaring that a ...

The term eugenics comes from the Greek roots for "good" and "generation" or "origin" and was first used to refer to the "science" of heredity ... the work of Gregor Mendel. Mendel had meticulously ...