When scientists today work to decode the human genome, they use high-tech methods to view the microscopic chromosomes and even pluck individual genes out of a cell. But in Darwin's time ...

DNA catapults into spotlight. A trio of research papers from Stanford Medicine researchers and their international collaborators transforms scientists’ understanding of how small DNA circles — until ...

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas’s Abbey ...

As early as the 1860s, Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin ... for what became known as the chromosome theory of heredity. Early Breakthroughs: Mendel and Darwin Propose Mechanisms of Heredity ...