Essays Tagged: "Gregor Mendel"

Gregor Johann Mendel

This is a short research essay about Gregor Mendel None...Gregor Johann MendelGregor Mendel was one of the first people in the history of ... rinkled for seed shapes in pea-plants). All the principles just stated areMendel's Laws of genetics.Gregor Johann MendelMisja PrinsBiology II I.B.Period 312/14/96

(1 pages) 88 0 3.6 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

The benifits of cloning.

r to produce desirable traits. The earliest form of genetic engineering dates back to the scientist Gregor Mendel who did experiments with peas. He bred only the peas with the most desirable traits in ...

(13 pages) 241 0 4.4 Feb/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Gregor Mendel.

INTRODUCTIONGregor Mendel played a very important role in the underlying principals of genetic inheritance. My r ... arch project will give a detailed description of his life, his works and the time he spent in life. Gregor Mendel researched agriculture. When he was younger he entered the monastery. He learned scien ... works was not discovered while he was alive, however he was credited for his work after his death. Gregor Mendel's life was very interesting and he achieved many goals and had many accomplishments. H ...

(4 pages) 80 1 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Gregor Mendel: His theory of characteristics in pea pod plants.

Gregor Mendel1822 - 1884BiographyGregor Johann Mendel was born on July 22, 1822, in Heizendorf, Aust ...

(2 pages) 35 0 3.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Plant Biology

The best ideas arise from passionate interest in commonplace things.

to bolster the argument just stated, it will be useful to refer to the pioneer of Genetics, namely Mendel. Those who would doubt a reclusive monk could make any good science out of growing peas will ... k could make any good science out of growing peas will be appalled by his outstanding achievements. Mendel, tending the pea trees as usual, realised that the collor of the pea beans, whether green or ...

(1 pages) 68 4 4.1 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Title: An Exploration of Biological Influences and Evolution in Male Homosexuality. About 9 pages in length not including the full works sited page.

r from the truth. Science is biased as with everything else in life. Even the "Father of Genetics", Gregor Mendel, is thought to have altered, or smudged, his data in order to make it fit his theory o ...

(11 pages) 155 1 4.6 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

An essay describing the theory of evolution and its basic tenets

he lack of the development of science at that time. Since then, the renewed interest in the work of Gregor Mendel and other new discoveries in genetics have given evolution the necessary processes req ...

(8 pages) 134 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

About basic genetics. Includes info. on: Gregor Mendel, Particulate Theory of Heredity, Professor Doppler, Unger, Punnet Square, and more

Modern genetics began in the 1860's when Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk, discovered the fundamental principles of heredity. He came up wi ...

(2 pages) 56 0 4.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

A brief essay on genectically engineered foods

the gene of one species into another species. Ever since the latter part of the 19th century, when Gregor Mendel discovered that characteristics in pea plants could be inherited, scientists have been ...

(2 pages) 37 0 3.3 Feb/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology

Scientific Discoveries of the 19th Century

the famous names from the nineteenth-century are Charles Darwin, Joseph Lister, Allessandro Volta, Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur, and many more.People used think that every life form now on Earth was ... on radically affected the views of the scientific community. He set the way for August Weismann and Gregor Mendel in the study of organisms, mutation, and chromosomes. Darwin's idea of evolution by ra ...

(2 pages) 33 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

The Life of Mendel: His Works and Progress in Genetics

Gregor Mendel, who was the first person to trace the characteristics of successive generations of a ... ally very supportive of what Mendel was doing and he was forced to stop those experiments. In 1851, Gregor Mendel got the chance to enter the University of Vienna for two years, to train to be a teach ...

(2 pages) 39 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Timeline of Biotecnology

terial--to make bread rise and to ferment beer and wine.About 150 years ago, an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel figured out how hereditary traits are passed from parents to offspring in plants. Sinc ... arles Darwin publishes the theory of evolution by natural selection1865 Science of genetics begins: Gregor Mendel discovers laws of heredity18701890 Using Darwin's theory, plant breeders crossbreed co ...

(4 pages) 54 0 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Eugenics, The Holocaust and the Human Genome Project.

Genetic theory began in the 19th century with Gregor Mendel's investigations into plant heredity. Independently of Mendel's work, in 1859 Charles ...

(4 pages) 43 0 3.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Mendel's Impact

re are very few scientists who have made posthumous contributions to science, but the Moravian monk Gregor Mendel is one of these scientists. Mendel became a monk in a monastery that was filled with m ...

(5 pages) 56 0 5.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Genetically Modified Organisms: Friend or Foe?

From simply selecting for desirable attributes in organisms, through Gregor Mendel's pea experiments, to modern day genetic recombinant techniques, man has sought to und ...

(6 pages) 137 0 3.4 Oct/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Heredity

Gregor Mendel found the patterns of simple inheritance in 1860 which are the basic principles scient ...

(2 pages) 58 0 4.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Gregor Mendel

Often called the "Father of Modern Genetics", Gregor Mendel gains his fame as the man who discovered the basic principles of heredity. Even though ... n from me, but never the art of scientific knowledge." (Edelson, 23)The teachers noticed that young Gregor was unusually intelligent and arranged for him to attend a school at Lipnik which was about 1 ... y and maybe most importantly, the Human Genome Project is the ultimate fulfillment of the work that Gregor Mendel began. Its goal is to determine the complete sequence of all the bases in all the huma ...

(6 pages) 76 0 4.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects

Genetic Engineering

how it came around.The history of genetic engineering dates back to the first discover of the gene. Gregor Mendel, known as the father of the gene, first discovered genes when growing plants in his mo ... other physical attributes of the flower. Although, at the time Mendel called them factors. However, Gregor Mendel did not know where these genes were located or how they were transferred from parents ...

(3 pages) 15 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Gregor Mendel

GREGOR JOHANN MENDEL (1822-1884) Gregor Mendel is known as the "Father of Genetics". Gregor Mendel i ... rm cell, combines with a female gamete, or egg cell, to form a seed.I choose this scientist because Gregor Mendel is very interesting to me. Gregor Mendel is the "Father of Genetics". He found a theor ... y offspring come out the way they do too. Why some of them act the way they do or play a sport good.Gregor Mendel did research on genetics with peas. His work and theories are very interesting to me. ...

(3 pages) 26 0 0.0 Jan/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Fathers Of Evolution

Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel were both pioneers in genetic engineering and biology. Mendel observed genetic change ...

(2 pages) 11 0 0.0 Feb/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology