The year was 1900. Three European botanists — one Dutch, one German and one Austrian — all reported results from breeding experiments in plants. Each claimed that they had independently discovered ...

Scientists have presented new findings that challenge established concepts of genetic inheritance. They have demonstrated that somatic cells of the roundworm C. elegans influence heredity. Scientists ...

*Laws of Heredity* is an educational film that demonstrates how inheritance operates in statistically predictable ways, presenting the foundational insights first achieved by Gregor Mendel. Through ...

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 near ...