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  1. 1822-1884. Austrian biologist, founder of
  2. genetics. His experiments with successive
  3. generations of peas gave the basis for his
  4. theory of particulate inheritance rather than
  5. blending, involving dominant and recessive
  6. characters. His results, published 1865-69,
  7. remained unrecognized until early this
  8. century. Mendel was abbot of the Augustinian
  9. abbey at Brunn (now Brno, Czechoslovakia)
  10. from 1868.
  11.