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This was the birth date of Gregor J. Mendel
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He planted ' experimental gardens ' in 1830
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From 1840 to 1843, he studied practical and theoretical philosophy as well as physics at the University of Olomouc Faculty of Philosophy
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n 1843 Mendel began his training as a priest. Upon recommendation of his physics teacher Friedrich Franz,[6] he entered the Augustinian Abbey of St Thomas in Brno in 1843
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In 1851 he was sent to the University of Vienna to study under the sponsorship of Abbot C. F. Napp. At Vienna, his professor of physics was Christian Doppler
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In 1854 Mendel was appointed teacher of physics and natural history at the newly established Realgymnasium in Brno.
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Between 1856 and 1863 Mendel cultivated and tested some 29,000 pea plants (i.e., Pisum sativum). This study showed that one in four pea plants had purebred recessive alleles, two out of four were hybrid and one out of four were purebred dominant. His experiments led him to make two generalizations, the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment, which later came to be known as Mendel's Laws of Inheritance.
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When Mendel's paper was published in 1866 in Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereins Brünn
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elevated as abbot in 1868
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This is the date he died in Brno, Czexh
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By 1900, research aimed at finding a successful theory of discontinuous inheritance rather than blending inheritance led to independent duplication of his work by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, and the rediscovery of Mendel's writings and laws.
