Mendel

[ men-dl ]

noun

1. Gre·gor Jo·hann [greg, -er , yoh, -hahn, grey, -gaw, r, , yoh, -hahn], 1822–84, Austrian monk and botanist.
2. a male given name, form of Mandel.

Mendel

/ ˈmɛndəl /

noun

1. MendelGregor Johann18221884MAustrianRELIGION: monkSCIENCE: botanist Gregor Johann (ˈɡreːɡɔr joˈhan). 1822–84, Austrian monk and botanist; founder of the science of genetics. He developed his theory of organic inheritance from his experiments on the hybridization of green peas. His findings were published (1865) but remained unrecognized until 1900 See Mendel's laws

Mendel

/ mĕn′dl /

1. Austrian botanist and founder of the science of genetics. He formulated the important principles, known as Mendel's laws, that form the basis of modern genetics.

Biography

In 1851 Austrian monk Gregor Mendel was sent by his monastery to the University of Vienna to study mathematics and science. Upon his return in 1854, be began teaching science, and several years later he began his now-famous series of hybridization experiments with garden peas in the monastery's small garden. There Mendel cross-pollinated plants of different sizes and shapes as well as plants that produced different colored flowers or peas. Analyzing each generation of new plants, he observed that some characteristics remained constant (or dominant ) in every generation, while others remained hidden (or recessive ), appearing only in later generations. Mendel called the units of inheritance factors and proved that two such factors, one from each parent, exist for each trait. A dominant trait requires only one factor for it to appear, but a recessive trait requires both. We now call the units of inheritance genes, and we know that each gene, which is composed of a DNA sequence, occupies a specific place on the chromosome. Although Mendel's rules of inheritance were published in 1865 in his article “Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden” (“Experiments with Plant Hybrids”), his work was ignored until 1900, when it was rediscovered by the Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries (1878–1918).

Example Sentences

He penned a poem called “Mendel’s Law: A Plea for a Better Race of Men” and which read in part:

From Salon

The building, which sees thousands of visitors each year, was formerly the home of the leader of the Orthodox Jewish movement - Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.

From BBC

To do this, Boeke's team started by using a method reminiscent of Mendel's peas: essentially, the researchers interbred different partially synthetic yeast strains and then searched amongst their progeny for individuals carrying both synthetic chromosomes.

From Science Daily

His name was Gregor Mendel — and he loved breeding pea plants.

From Salon

Rabbi Mendel Hendel, who runs the Chabad Jewish center, said he learned about the planned attack on the news.

From Washington Times