Gregor Mendel's 189th Birthday

Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20 1822 - January 6 1884), German, Czech Augustinian monk and scientist who has inherited some features of the new science of genetics to investigate a posthumous image of the doll thymtr plants. Mendel showed that inheritance of symptoms, especially in the law, which was later named after him. At the beginning of the 20th century, recognized the importance of Mendel. Independent rediscovery of the laws of genetics established by modern science.

Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian monk and biologist whose work laid the foundations for the modern theory of genetic inheritance.

Mendel was born July 22, 1822 Heizendorf, Austria, (now known as Czechoslovakia Hyncice). He was born Johann Mendel into poor farming family. At that time it was difficult for poor families to get a good education and the young Mendel saw the only way to escape was to go into the monastic life of poverty is Brunn Moravia (now Brno in Czechoslovakia). Here he was named Gregory. It was the Augustinian Monastery of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Thomas in the range of teaching and research in the center of academic reputation.