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=Gregor Mendel = = 1822-1884= Gregor Mendel was born on July 22, 1822 in German speaking Silesia and died on January 6, 1884.

Silesia, a country split into Germany and Poland, where Mendel was born.
=Occupation= Mendel was a botanist who studied plant biology. =**What is Gregor Mendel known for?**= Gregor Mendel was known for his famous experiment on garden peas, where he proved that each of the different traits that the parents and offspring had were determined by specific elements. Traits such as eye color and hair color are determined by the interaction of the two parent's elements, One element would predominate over the other, therefore becoming the dominant element and the other the recessive. Only if the offspring were to inherit two recessive gene allelles(parts of genes)would they inherit the recessive trait. This experiment helped lay the roots of genetics.

=A discussion and Scientific Explanation of Mendel's discoveries in laymen's terms= Mendel discovered that each individual, plant or animal had two different sets of genes, one from each parent =Education and Impotant places that Mendel worked: Career= Mendel went to school at the University of Vienna and conducted his famous garden-pea experiment at the Brno Monastery.

=Intereting facts about Gregor Mendel= Mendel died of kidney inflammation and abnormal overgrowth of the heart. Mendel became the Abbot, or the head of the Brno Monastery in 1868. Mendel's birth name was Johann but he changed it to Gregor when he arrived at the Brno Monastery.

=References= Edelson, Edward. Gregor Mendel and the roots of genetic. New York: Oxford University Press.1999.Print Europa Technologies."Google Earth".//Google Earth.//Tele Atlas,September 8 2009.Web.September 22 2009.

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