Mendel

[ men-dl ]

noun

Gre·gor Jo·hann [greg-er yoh-hahn; German grey-gawr-yoh-hahn], /ˈgrɛg ər ˈyoʊ hɑn; German ˈgreɪ gɔr ˈyoʊ hɑn/, 1822–84, Austrian monk and botanist.
a male given name, form of Mandel.

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How to use Mendel in a sentence

The man cutting into the butterfly cocoon is Mendel, a scientist working on identifying and isolating the gene responsible for the monarch's distinct wing color.
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Son of Monarchs is a visual treat, embracing a truncated, almost dream-like pacing, which compliments the various surreal shots of Mendel's memories and nightmares.
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Gambis maintains thematic tension throughout the story, constantly pulling Mendel between two very different worlds.
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As Mendel goes through his transformative journey, he holds himself slightly differently, slowly disregarding his "masks" and allowing his true self to emerge.
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Zanders and colleagues were the first to work out the molecular tricks that thesegenes use to skirt Mendel’s laws, reporting the findings in eLife in 2017.
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In addition to his monograph, Mr. Perez released another book, Gilles Mendel by Enoc Perez, available this month at J. Mendel.
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Aguiar was more interested in talking about Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the spiritual founder of Chabad-Lubavitch.
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Such results were anticipated from the experience of Osborne and Mendel in feeding similar materials.
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This quality thus impressed on the next generation, Mendel called the dominant quality.
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When people saw us coming, they would say, 'Here is Mendel and here is Mendel's sohn, too.'
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It is remarkable that, as far as we know, Darwin never in any way came across Mendel's work.
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A man who keeps his shop open on Sabbath is capable of anything,' said the lanky Mendel, gloomily sweeping in his winnings.
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British Dictionary definitions for Mendel

Mendel

/ (ˈmɛndəl) /

noun

Gregor Johann (ˈɡreːɡɔr joˈhan). 1822–84, Austrian monk and botanist; founder of the science of genetics. He developed his theory of organic inheritance from his experiments on the hybridization of green peas. His findings were published (1865) but remained unrecognized until 1900: See Mendel's laws

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Scientific definitions for Mendel

Mendel

[ mĕn′dl ]

Austrian botanist and founder of the science of genetics. He formulated the important principles, known as Mendel's laws, that form the basis of modern genetics.

biography For Mendel

In 1851 Austrian monk Gregor Mendel was sent by his monastery to the University of Vienna to study mathematics and science. Upon his return in 1854, be began teaching science, and several years later he began his now-famous series of hybridization experiments with garden peas in the monastery's small garden. There Mendel cross-pollinated plants of different sizes and shapes as well as plants that produced different colored flowers or peas. Analyzing each generation of new plants, he observed that some characteristics remained constant (or dominant) in every generation, while others remained hidden (or recessive), appearing only in later generations. Mendel called the units of inheritance factors and proved that two such factors, one from each parent, exist for each trait. A dominant trait requires only one factor for it to appear, but a recessive trait requires both. We now call the units of inheritance genes, and we know that each gene, which is composed of a DNA sequence, occupies a specific place on the chromosome. Although Mendel's rules of inheritance were published in 1865 in his article Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden (Experiments with Plant Hybrids), his work was ignored until 1900, when it was rediscovered by the Dutch botanist Hugo de Vries (1878-1918).

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