Gregor Mendel: Great Minds
Hank brings us the story of Gregor Mendel, the Austrian monk who, with the help of a garden full of pea plants, discovered the fundamental properties of inheritance and paved the way for modern...
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Today I have for you: A sizzling tale of a chubby little friar who changed the world with a garden full of pea plants. Today's Great Mind in Science is Gregor Mendel, an Austrian monk who in [the] mid-18-hundreds single-handedly fathered modern genetics! But even though Mendel was a man of God, as it were, he and his pea plants have been the focus of one of the biggest scientific scandals in history. Oh Lord, I love a good scientific scandal! [intro music] Mendel was born in 1822 in what was then Austria, but is now the Czech Republic. His parents were super super poor, but the young Gregor was such a precocious little scamp that they spent all of their money educating him. That is, at least until his dad was injured in a farming accident, which...
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Today I have for you: A sizzling tale of a chubby little friar who changed the world with a garden full of pea plants. Today's Great Mind in Science is Gregor Mendel, an Austrian monk who in [the] mid-18-hundreds single-handedly fathered modern genetics! But even though Mendel was a man of God, as it were, he and his pea plants have been the focus of one of the biggest scientific scandals in history. Oh Lord, I love a good scientific scandal! [intro music] Mendel was born in 1822 in what was then Austria, but is now the Czech Republic. His parents were super super poor, but the young Gregor was such a precocious little scamp that they spent all of their money educating him. That is, at least until his dad was injured in a farming accident, which...
