does anybody know about if gregor mendel had a wife or any kids? if so could you posibly tell me who they are?

Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822– January 6, 1884) was a Moravian Augustinian priest and scientist often called the "father of modern genetics" for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants.

Mendel showed that the inheritance of traits follows particular laws, which were later named after him.

The significance of Mendel's work was not recognised until the turn of the 20th century. Its rediscovery prompted the foundation of genetics.

Mendel was born into a German-speaking family in Heinzendorf, Austrian Silesia, then part of the Austrian Empire (now Hynčice in the Czech Republic), and was baptised two days later.

During his childhood Mendel worked as a gardener, and as a young man attended the Philosophical Institute in Olomouc (Olmütz). In 1843 he entered the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno, (Brünn). Born Johann Mendel, he took the name Gregor upon entering monastic life.

In 1851 he was sent to the University of Vienna to study, returning to his abbey in 1853 as a teacher, principally of physics.

Gregor Mendel, who is known as the "father of modern genetics", was inspired by both his professors at university and his colleagues at the monastery to study variation in plants, and he conducted his study in the monastery's garden.

Between 1856 and 1863 Mendel cultivated and tested some 29,000 pea plants.

This study showed that one in four pea plants had purebred recessive alleles, two out of four were hybrid and one out of four were purebred dominant.

His experiments brought forth two generalisations which later became known as Mendel's Laws of Inheritance.

When Mendel's paper was published in 1866 in Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Brünn, it had little impact and was cited about three times over the next thirty-five years. His paper received plenty of criticism.

Elevated as abbot in 1868, his scientific work largely ended as Mendel became consumed with his increased administrative responsibilities, especially a dispute with the civil government over their attempt to impose special taxes on religious institutions.

At first Mendel's work was rejected (and it was not widely accepted until after he died).

The common belief at the time was that pangenes were responsible for inheritance.

Even Darwin's theory of evolution used pangenesis instead of Mendel's model of inheritance.

The modern synthesis uses Mendelian genetics.

Mendel died on January 6, 1884, in Brno, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic), from chronic nephritis.( Disease of Kidney)

He was unmarried and the credit for discovery of 'Cell' goes not to him but to Robert Hooke who saw cork cell under a microscope and gave the 'honey combed ' structure the name 'Cell ' for the first time

He was a monk- I don't believe he was ever married... I'll pull out my old history of bio text book and see though.

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Okay, according to my book he was never married. Here's some facts though:

Austrian- 1822-1884

Father of Genetics (based on conclusions derived by experiments conducted btwn 1856 to 1863)

Raised as farmer and fruit grower (why he experiment w/ plants)

Used species Pisum satiuum as vector choice for over 2 yrs but test bred 34 diff varieties of peas.

Died a poor fat monk, some say if he would have communicated w/ Darwin- the study of genetics would have advanced further during this period.

Mendel's Contributions:

1. Concept of Unit Characters (aka alleles)

2. Dominance and Recessiveness

3. Principle of Segregation

4. Principle of Independent Assortment

5. Mathematical Analysis of Data

His work had little impact at the time and wasn't thought to be "great work" until 20 yrs after his death. This is b/c the scientific community was obsessed w/ Darwinism and concentrating on the variability of species and he was an unknown priest advocating the constancy of the hereditary factors (aka traits). Mendel's quantitative approach was to advanced for its time. Much of the genetic scientific literature at that time was contradictory.

Mendel died w/out being credited for his astounding findings. In 1900, his work was discovered independently by 3 individuals; Hugo de Vries, Carl (or Karl) Correns, and Tschermak von Seysenegg.

I'll agree that Mendel was a monk and had no wife or kids. However, he wasn't the one who started using the term "cell". That honor belongs to Hooke.

Mendel was an ordained preist of the Augustinian Order. As a monk, he was not allowed to do that.

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