Gregor Mendel
1822 – 1884 · Czech Republic · Biology
Pea plants in a monastery garden gave the world genetics.
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Who shaped Gregor Mendel, and who they shaped
Inherited from1
- Charles Darwin
1809 – 1882 · Biology
Mendel read the Origin and framed his pea experiments against blending inheritance.
Passed the work to2
- Barbara McClintock
1902 – 1992 · Biology
McClintock's maize cytogenetics traced Mendel's factors to visible chromosomal events.
- Nikolai Vavilov
1887 – 1943 · Biology
Vavilov's centres of crop diversity are Mendelian genetics applied to world agriculture.
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Alexander von Humboldt
1769 – 1859Invented the idea that nature is a single connected web — and that we can wreck it.