Gregor Johann Mendel, Genetics Foundations
Thamana Haleem
ID#101003548
James J. Cheetham
BIOL1010
Oct. 5th ,2015
Introduction: I would like to nominee Gregor Johann Mendel for the "Carleton Prize for Biotechnology". Gregor Mendel is an Australian Scientist who has been credited for discovery of the science of genetics based on his experiments, breeding peas in the monastery garden at Brünn. He identified the basic genetic heredity of living organism and discovered genetic through an experiment in his garden, (Numbers, R. L. 2015). Gregor Mendel was born on July 20, 1882 in Heinsendorf Bei Odraua, a small village in Australia (Haas, L. F.1998). Mendel’s parent owned farms for
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