Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics was born 189 years ago today and is celebrated in a pea-themed Google doodle. He was an Austrian monk and every school child who studies biology learns all about his work in his monastery garden where he studied features of pea plants year after year. He noticed that when second generation plants, i.e. hybrid plants, were crossed with each other or themselves, one type dominated the other, Thus he established the idea of dominance and recessiveness in what we now call genetics.
I like the Google Doodle! Peas enjoy.
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