THE time has come when a preliminary attempt may be made to forecast the position which Mendel's discovery will occupy in the history of biology, and when the widely divergent attitudes which have ...

A REVIEW of the first edition of Dr. Bateson's valuable conspectus of discoveries in regard to heredity made by the application of Mendel's methods of research, appeared in NATURE of May 25, 1911 (vol ...

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 ...

All of the different plants on Earth—from mango trees to marigolds—have come about thanks to the simple rules of genetic inheritance, which determine how traits are passed on from one generation to ...

One of the more interesting questions about the history of science is whether certain theories are inevitable. Given a set of data and the prevalent intellectual environment, does it become difficult ...

Two hundred years ago in July, Johann Mendel was born. He would come to be known as Gregor (the religious name he received upon entering the Augustinian Friars at St. Thomas' Abbey in Austria-Hungary) ...

Because our genetics form the most essential traits that determine the biological basis of who we are, the genetics and genomics is a popular and intriguing major here at UC Davis. I remember learning ...

Plant breeding aims at the genetic enhancement of crops through the application of principles of Mendelian Genetics and modern tools and techniques of cell and molecular biology. Many breeding ...