Gregor Mendel on Google

It's Gregor Mendel's 189th birthday. Back to schooldays, Mendel's Law, Mendelian Genetics, Bapa Genetik, Hukum Mendel... recall anything? Those were the SPM days... 

He's famous for his findings and study of the inheritance of certain traits in pea (Pisum sativum)plants. The seven garden pea characteristics studied by Gregor Mendel - Stem length, flower position, flower colour, pod (fruit) shape, pod colour, seed shape and seed colour.

Mendel's papers were published in 1866 but the scientific community had no knowledge of DNA, genes, mitoses and meiosis that time. Hence, his work was not recognised during his lifetime. It was only in the early twentieth that his papers were rediscovered by 3 scientists who had some mathematics background and recognised his work. After the discovery of chromosomes, DNA and genes, Mendel's work became the foundation for the basic genetic principles for inheritance. Then, he is known as Father of Genetics.

We learned genetics, chromosomes, DNA, genes etc, since Form 4 and 5. But why the university students nowadays, when they were taught and asked to read about genes and other related information, they're so lazy to read and all they know when being questioned - is answer back - 'don't know'. Tapi, pandai plak buka FB page cari 'info' lain? Doh! 

source : wiki, SPM Biology Form 5