{"id":142049,"date":"2022-07-11T21:23:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T02:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/proof-that-mendel-discovered-the-laws-of-inheritance-decades-ahead-of-his-time"},"modified":"2022-07-11T21:23:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T02:23:23","slug":"proof-that-mendel-discovered-the-laws-of-inheritance-decades-ahead-of-his-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/proof-that-mendel-discovered-the-laws-of-inheritance-decades-ahead-of-his-time","title":{"rendered":"Proof that Mendel discovered the laws of inheritance decades ahead of his time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/proof-that-mendel-discovered-the-laws-of-inheritance-decades-ahead-of-his-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk, was indeed \u201cdecades ahead of his time and truly deserves the title of \u2018founder of genetics.\u2019\u201d So concludes an international team of scientists as the 200th birthday of Mendel approaches on 20 July.<\/p>\n<p>The team, from KeyGene in the Netherlands and the John Innes Centre in the UK, draw on newly-discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/historical+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">historical information<\/a> to conclude that, when his proposals are viewed in the light of what was known of cells in the mid-19th century, Mendel was decades ahead of his time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUncovering hidden details about Mendel has helped to build a picture of the scientific and intellectual environment in which he worked. At the outset Mendel knew nothing about genetics and had to deduce it all for himself. How he went about this is highly instructive,\u201d said Dr. Noel Ellis from the John Innes Centre, one of the contributors to the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gregor Mendel, the Moravian monk, was indeed \u201cdecades ahead of his time and truly deserves the title of \u2018founder of genetics.\u2019\u201d So concludes an international team of scientists as the 200th birthday of Mendel approaches on 20 July. The team, from KeyGene in the Netherlands and the John Innes Centre in the UK, draw on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}