There is a lot of variation in the measurements of one experiment. A large sample size, or "N," is required to make any quantitative comparisons or conclusions. Mendel had thus determined what ...

Ironically, Darwin never found out. The results of Mendel's carefully designed and meticulously executed experiments, which involved nearly 30,000 pea plants followed over eight generations ...

Through his breeding experiments with pea plants, Mendel established three principles of inheritance that described the transmission of genetic traits before genes were even discovered.

History demands that we not turn a blind eye to what is happening around us. As frustrating as it can be to wake up to this battle every day, I take some solace in the fact that enough thoughtful ...

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 ...

On New Year's Eve, 1866, Gregor Mendel wrote to the prominent Swiss botanist Carl Nägeli to tell him about his now classic experiments with Pisum peas. In the margins of the letter, Nägeli scribbled a ...