Topic:
My topic is Gregor Mendel. We learned about him in class briefly and I wanted to find out about more of his discoveries, experiments and more.
Interesting Facts:
~ Gregor Mendel took a qualifying examination for teacher certification at a secondary school in the city of Znaim at for teaching and failed.
~ In 1851 he entered the University of Vienna to train to be a teacher of
Mathematics and Biology. It was there where he developed skills as a
researcher. He studied physics, chemistry, mathematics, zoology and
botany from 1851 to 1853.
~ He studied for two years at the Philosophical Institute at Olmutz Czechoslovakia.
~ He was a well loved monk and abbot who became famous after he passed away on January 6, 1884.
~ Gregor Mendel's theorys about genetics were ignored by the academic world and were not understood because hes discoveries were ahead of his time.
~ He spent over eight years growing over thirty-thousand pea plants studying genetics in the garden in his monestary.
My Opinion:
In my opinion, Gregor Mendel is interesting to study because he was the first person who figured out why people looked the way they did. He figured out that people got vertain traits from their parents. The theory that people had in his time period was that you features were mixed, but the truth of the matter was that you got some features from your mother and some from your father. I cant believe he actually spent eight years of his life growing over thrity-thousand pea plants to learn about this unknown topic which was more of a twentieth century study (much more ahead of his own time). While studying him, I read that he was a quiet person. This was believable because I read that his fame wasn't recognized until after he passed away. I'm glad he discovered this because if he didn't, we wouldn't know as much as we do about the human body, for example, diseases. THANK YOU GREGOR MENDEL!
Sites:
1. http://www.lycos.com/info/gregor-mendel.html
2. http://712educators.about.com/cs/biographies/p/mendel.htm
3. http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/klmno/mendel_gregor.html
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