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 ...

Here you will learn about the basics of Gregor Mendel's experiments, which defined the basic patterns of inheritance. We will also examine Morgan's early experiments on linkage and the discovery of ...

IN 1865, an Austrian monk called Gregor Mendel, working to understand hybridisation, uncovered exquisitely simple and reliable patterns of inheritance in varieties of garden pea. In 1900, the patterns ...