Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gregor Mendel, Austrian botanist and founder of genetics, poses for a photograph circa 1860. Between 1856-1863, Mendel bred almost ...

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 ...

One hundred and fifty years ago, in 1866, the study by Gregor Johann Mendel that came to be known as the basis for genetics was published: “Experiments on plant hybridization.” A year earlier, in ...