Gregor Mendel
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- proper noun
- /ˈɡrɛɡər ˈmɛndəl/
- The legacy of Gregor Mendel continues to impact science!
Examples
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The principles discovered by Gregor Mendel are still taught in biology classes around the world.
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Gregor Mendel is often called the father of modern genetics due to his pioneering work with pea plants.
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Many scientific institutions honor Gregor Mendel for his monumental contributions to the understanding of heredity.
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Gregor Mendel was a pioneer in genetics.
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The Austrian monk Gregor Mendel conducted groundbreaking research on pea plants, ultimately establishing the laws of heredity.
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In the 1860s, Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk, discovered the fundamental principles of genetic inheritance through his experiments with peas.
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The founder of modern genetics, Gregor Mendel, significantly advanced our understanding of heredity by exploring how traits are passed on in pea plants.
Synonyms
A monk and scientist who discovered how traits pass from parents to children by studying pea plants
Surface Forms
Morphology
Gregor + Mendel
Gregor Mendel is a proper name composed of two personal names that carry no lexical meaning of the referent; knowing the constituent names does not let a learner infer that he was an Austrian monk and founding geneticist. Proper nouns are non-compositional and require encyclopedic/world knowledge rather than knowledge of constituent words, so this expression is not derivable by a B1 learner from its parts.
Etymology
Gregor Mendel was a monk who, in the 1800s, grew pea plants and carefully counted simple traits like tall or short and green or yellow. This careful work showed the basic 'laws of heredity', so he is often called the 'father of modern genetics'.