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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Gregor Mendel, Friedrich Welwitsch, John Lhotsky, Thaddaus Haenke, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Charles von Hugel, Joseph Rock, Karl Robatsch, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Stephan Endlicher, Heinrich Wawra von Fernsee, Gabriel Strobl, Franz Unger, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl, Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld, Emanuel von Friedrichsthal, Franz Xaver von Wulfen, Johann Christian Mikan, Belsazar Hacquet, Franz Sieber, Gunther Beck von Mannagetta und Lerchenau, Carl Franz Anton Ritter von Schreibers, Eduard Hackel, Vinzenz Maria Gredler, Joseph Franz von Jacquin, Theodor Kotschy, Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz, Friedrich von Berchtold, Mutius von Tommasini, Constantin von Ettingshausen, Pal Kitaibel, Franz Thonner, Otto Stapf, Camillo Karl Schneider, Jan Svatopluk Presl, Franz de Paula Adam von Waldstein, Carl Friedrich Kotschy, Gottlieb Haberlandt, Heinrich Wilhelm Schott, Carl Borivoj Presl, Friedrich Reinitzer, Emil Johann Lambert Heinricher, Joseph Gottfried Mikan, Johann Prokop Mayer, Franz Antoine, Franz Kohaut, Johann Joseph Peyritsch, Eduard Pospichal, Karl Fritsch, August von Hayek, Karl von Zois, Eugen von Halacsy, Hans Molisch, Karl Rechinger, Richard Wettstein, Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, Julius Wiesner, Theodor Karl Just, Siegfried Reisseck, Karl Heinz Rechinger, Julius Hermann Schultes, Josef August Schultes, Eduard Fenzl, Friedrich Vierhapper. Excerpt: Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 - January 6, 1884) was an Austrian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. Although the significance of Mendel's work was not recognized until the turn of the 20th century, the...
