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There are not many scientists who have managed to lay the foundations for an entire scientific field. And there are certainly not many who have achieved such a feat in this country. Therefore great respect is due Gregor Johann Mendel, considered the founder of genetics, who worked for most of his life in the Augustinian monastery at Old Brno and, on the basis of his experimental work, formulated the laws of heredity that are now called by his name throughout the world. However, Mendel was a much more interdisciplinary scientist, involved in many different fields. In addition to conducting thousands of challenging experiments investigating the inheritance of individual traits in peas, Mendel was also interested in meteorology, beekeeping and breeding. In addition, he also served as a priest, abbot of the St. Thomas Monastery, and even as a bank director. We can hardly imagine such a wide range of activities among contemporary scientists.
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Johann was born on 20 July 1822 in Hynčice, Silesia, into the family of German-speaking small farmers Anton and Rosina Mendel. He had an older and a younger sister (two of this other sisters died early in childhood). • From an early age, the boy was very curious. He found many stimuli in his father’s orchard and apiary. Already at elementary school, his teacher noticed his unusual interest in learning. From this time, his life took a course different from that which one might expect from his family background...
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