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Gregor Johann Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel , 1822-84, Austrian monk noted for his experimental work on heredity . He entered the Augustinian monastery in Brno in 1843, taught at a local secondary school, and carried out independent scientific investigations on garden peas and other plants until his election as prelate i... Read more
atavism
atavism , the appearance in an individual of a characteristic not apparent in the preceding generation. At one time it was believed that such a phenomenon was thought to be a reversion of "throwback" to a hypothetical ancestral prototype. The term is seldom used today since science has shown tha... Read more
albino
albino [Port.,=white], animal or plant lacking normal pigmentation. The absence of pigment is observed in the body covering (skin, hair, and feathers) and in the iris of the eye. The blood vessels of the retina show through the iris, giving it a pink or reddish color, and the eyes are highly sensit... Read more
biometrics
biometrics also known as biostatistics or biometry, in biology, the development and application of statistical and mathematical methods to the analysis of data resulting from biological observations and phenomena. Biometrics is used in clinical trials evaluating the relative effectiveness o... Read more
Hugo de Vries
Hugo de Vries , 1848-1935, Dutch botanist. He opened a new approach to the study of evolution by using the experimental method to investigate the processes of evolution. His study of discontinuous variations, especially in the evening primrose , led to his rediscovery (reported in 1900) of Mendel's... Read more
blood groups
blood groups differentiation of blood by type, classified according to immunological (antigenic) properties, which are determined by specific substances on the surface of red blood cells. Blood groups are genetically determined and each is characterized by the presence of a specific complex carboh... Read more
genetics
genetics scientific study of the mechanism of heredity. While Gregor Mendel first presented his findings on the statistical laws governing the transmission of certain traits from generation to generation in 1856, it was not until the discovery and detailed study of the chromosome and the gene ... Read more
breeding
breeding in agriculture and animal husbandry , propagation of plants and animals by sexual reproduction ; usually based on selection of parents with desirable traits to produce improved progeny. In conventional breeding, progeny inherit genes for both desirable and undesirable traits from both ... Read more
biology
biology the science that deals with living things. It is broadly divided into zoology , the study of animal life, and botany , the study of plant life. Subdivisions of each of these sciences include cytology (the study of cells), histology (the study of tissues), anatomy or morphology, physiology... Read more
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko , 1898-1976, Russian agronomist. As president of the Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences he became the scientific and administrative leader of Soviet agriculture. In 1937 he was made a member of the Supreme Soviet and head of the Institute of Genetics of the So... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Mendel,"

Mendel, Gregor
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion Mendel, Gregor Although some leading scientists...in science, the life of the monk Gregor Mendel serves as an important counter-example...perpetual war between science and religion. In Mendel's case, rather than hindering science...
Johann Gregor Mendel
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Johann Gregor Mendel The Moravian natural scientist and Augustinian abbot Johann Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) laid the foundations of modern...dealing with the hybridization of peas. Gregor Mendel was born on July 22, 1822, at Hynč...
Gregor Johann Mendel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Gregor Johann Mendel , 1822-84, Austrian monk noted for...cell, these findings went unpublished. Mendel was the first to fashion, by means of...de Vries, and Tschermak) in 1900, Mendel's conclusions have become the basic...
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Menachem Mendel Schneerson One of the most influential...20th century Judaism, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (1902-1994) expanded the...powerful religious movement. Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the seventh rabbi of the...
Mendel’s Law
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Mendel ’ s Law Gregor Mendel (1822 – 1884), an Austrian monk, conducted experiments...dominance between traits. These variations were caused by what Mendel called “ factors ” but what we now call...
Mendelssohn, Moses (Moshe Ben Mendel Mi-Dessau; 1729–1786)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World MENDELSSOHN, MOSES (Moshe ben Mendel mi-Dessau; 1729 – 1786) MENDELSSOHN, MOSES (Moshe ben Mendel mi-Dessau; 1729 – 1786...Jewish family in Dessau. His father, Mendel Heymann, was a Jewish religious teacher...
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Mendel, Gregor Johann (1822–84) Austrian naturalist. He discovered the laws of heredity , and in so doing laid the foundation...
David Mendel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition David Mendel see Neander, Johann August Wilhelm .
Rivers, L. Mendel
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History Rivers, L. Mendel (1905–1970), South Carolina congressman and House Armed Services Committee chairman.Rivers, raised in poverty...
Mendelian Laws of Inheritance
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...were derived by the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel (1822 – 1884) based on experiments...about 1857 to 1865. For his experiments, Mendel used ordinary pea plants. Among the traits that Mendel studied were the color of a plant's flowers...

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Mendel, Lafayette Benedict
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography MENDEL, LAFAYETTE BENEDICT ( b . Delhi, New York, 5 February 1872...December 1935) physiological chemistry . Lafayette Benedict Mendel was the elder of two sons of Benedict Mendel, a merchant in Delhi, New York, and Pauline Ullman. Both...
Mendel, Johann Gregor
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography MENDEL, JOHANN GREGOR (b. Heinzendorf, Austria...Natural Sciences Society of Brno, J. G. Mendel first presented an account of his eight...decades, by a virtually unknown monk. Mendel ’ s experimental work, designed...
Mendel, Gregor Johann
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences Mendel, Gregor Johann (1822–84...appearance of those features in the progeny. Mendel took part in the meetings of the Naturforscher...Seysenegg, and H. de Vries came across Mendel's paper describing results similar to...
Mendel, GregorJohann
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology Mendel, GregorJohann (1822–84)An...appearance of those features in the progeny. Mendel took part in the meetings of the Naturforscher...Seysenegg, and H. de Vries came across Mendel's paper describing results similar to...
Mendel's laws
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology Mendel's laws Two general laws of inheritance formulated by the Austrian monk Gregor Johann Mendel . 1. ( segregation ) The two members of...distantly linked pairs. At the time of Mendel, genes had not been identified as the units...
segregation, Mendel's law of
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology segregation, Mendel's law of See MENDEL'S LAWS .
Castle, William Ernest
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...prepared to grasp the significance of Mendel ’ s work when it was rediscovered...career to investigating either aspects of Mendel ’ s laws or the relationship...year or two after becoming familiar with Mendel ’ s work, he attempted to apply...
Correns, Carl Franz Joseph Erich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Correns won fame as a rediscoverer of Mendel ’ s laws. Whereas de Vries and Tschermak, who rediscovered Mendel ’ s work simultanteously...presented no problem to Correns, who, like Mendel, realized that only the cotyledons...
Genetics
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...empirical sense until the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's laws in 1900. Mendel, an Austrian monk who experimented with patterns...Classical and Molecular Genetics The rediscovery of Mendel's laws led to the flowering of classical genetics...
Nilsson-Ehle, Herman
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...realized the fundamental importance of Mendel ’ s principles of heredity...rediscovered, and he was especially impressed by Mendel ’ s clarification of the mechanism...cultivated plants are inherited according to Mendel ’ s laws and may be recombined...

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Mendel Biotechnology Completes Fifth Update of Its Gene Function Database One Year Ahead of Schedule.
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MENDEL'S PEAS: Chicago exhibit celebrates friar's work in genetics
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail; 9/17/2006; ; 700+ words ; CHICAGO - Gregor Mendel made a scientific discovery 150 years...nobody at the time took notice. In fact Mendel, a gentle Augustinian friar and schoolteacher...the secret of genetic inheritance. Mendel has long been a hero of Field Museum...
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J. MENDEL EXPANDING SCOPE.(J. Mendel Fourrure)
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Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics
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Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics.
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Gregor Johann Mendel.
Magazine article from: Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; On August 6, 1847, Gregor Johann Mendel was ordained as a priest in Brunn, Moravia. Luckily for medicine, Mendel's personality and psychosomatic disposition...was published. Even the enigmatic Mendel, who elucidated the fundamental principles...
The Lesser-Known Mendel: His Experiments on Hieracium
Magazine article from: Genetics; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...year 2006 is the 140th anniversary of Mendel's pathbreaking article. It is appropriate...genetics begin the year with an article about Mendel and his work. Much has been written about...success, we present a scholarly account of Mendel's frustrating attempts to repeat his...
Mendel Biotechnology Announces Collaboration With BP on Biofeedstocks.
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