Jan gregor mendel biography video

Here are some facts about Gregor Mendel.

• Gregor Mendel was a 19th century Augustinian monk and scientist.
• He is famous for his plant experiments which helped to establish some of the now accepted laws of heredity.

• Mendel was born in July, 1822 on his family’s Austrian farm (although its location is now within the borders of the Czech Republic).
• He did well at school and university, where he studied mathematics and physics.

  He made extra money from tutoring.

• Mendel graduated from university in 1843, despite abandoning his studies several times because of depression. Against his family’s wishes, he studied to be a monk.

• In 1854, Mendel began studying hereditary features in plants.

  Looking at pea plants, he concluded that all living things, including humans, passed on their characteristics to their children in predictable ways.

• Gregor Mendel also experimented on mice and bees. He referred to the bees as his ‘dearest little animals’, a