In 1857, Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel began growing peas in the garden of the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, Austrian Empire (present-day Czech Republic). Mendel’s experiments would lead ...
Reprinted from: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 109, no. 6 (Aug. 18, 1965). siris_sil_593545 ...