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 genetics. He also gives us the dirt on a scientific scandal that has followed Mendel beyond the grave. Like SciShow on Facebook: www.facebook.com/scishow Follow SciShow on Twitter: www.twitter.com/scishow References: Mendelian traits in humans: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mendelian_traits_in_humans & education.sdsc.edu/download/enrich/mendelian_traits.pdf Mendel-Fisher Controversy - www.amjbot.org/content/88/5/737.full & www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/csi-mendel Mendel Biography - www.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/mendel.htm & www.dnaftb.org/2/bio.html Mendel's genetics - anthro.palomar.edu/mendel/mendel_1.htm Campbell Biology, 9th ed. gregor mendel, austria, genetics, pea flowers, scandal, data, czech, augustinian monk, monk, abbot, monastery, brno, reproduction, heredity, inheritance, color, pea, gene, inherited traits, physical trait, breeding lines, experiment, allele, genotype, phenotype, dominant, recessive, law of segregation, law of independent assortment, father of modern genetics, ronald fisher, statistician, statistics, scandal, selective reporting, mendelian trait, science, scishow, great minds, hank green
