Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics

by Simon Mawer

Book Overview

In the mid-nineteenth century, Gregor Mendel, a friar who taught natural science in the provincial Austro-Hungarian capital of Brunn (today Brno, Czech Republic), began to experiment with breeding garden peas. Meticulously recording his observations of their inherited traits over a number of generations, he developed the basis of the modern science of genetics. Mendel's discoveries were so far in advance of their day that it wasn't until 50 years...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810957485
• ISBN13: 9780810957480
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary