Biomics

Gregor Mendel is widely known as the founder of genetics, who deduced the laws of inheritance of traits on the example of peas, but he was a versatile personality, having other scientific and practical interests, about which, unfortunately, few people know. Among them is the fascination with bees, including attempts to cross them, as well as the domestication of stingless bees from South America, meteorological and astronomical observations, microscopy, crossing fruit trees, including breeding work with them by inoculation, finally, linguistics and onomastics. In many of his studies, Mendel achieved notable results in them, as in the case of peas, outstripping not only his contemporaries. 

Gregor Mendel, Mendel-beekeeper, Mendel-meteorologist, Mendel-astronomer, Mendel-breeder, Apis mellifera

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