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American Zoologist 1986 26(3):749-752; doi:10.1093/icb/26.3.749
© 1986 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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Experiments in a Monastery Garden1,2

GREGOR MENDEL
Augustinian Monastery of St. Thomas Brünn

SYNOPSIS. After a brief account of my early education, study at the University of Wien, and preliminary experiments on hybridization conducted at the Augustinian Monastery in Brünn, Austria, I state the reasons for selecting certain features of the edible pea, Pisum sativum, for extensive investigation of their inheritance. After eight years I reported my results to the Brünn Society for the Study of Natural Science, and they were published in the following year (1866) in the Proceedings of the Society. I discovered two basic principles of inheritance: the law of segregation and the law of independent assortment of hypothetical units of heredity that I called Elemente. I conclude with some remarks on the possible relation of my work to the evolution of organic form and on my disappointment that my studies do not seem to be known or understood, and that because of my administrative duties at themonastery, now being the Abbot, I have no time for further investigations.


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