The era of Mendel and some of his contemporaries

• Charles Darwin - born 12 February 1809

• Miami University - established 17 February 1809

• Gregor Mendel - born 22 July 1822

• Louis Pasteur - born 27 December 1822

Charles Darwin - The Origin of Species (1859)

The Voyage of the Beagle

Gregor Mendel - Mendel Web

1866 Publication of Gregor Mendel's work - MendelWeb

1879-85 -W. Flemming described Chromosomes

1888 - W. Waldeyer first used the term chromosome

1875 - O. Hertwig fusion of sperm and egg

1885 - August Weismann inheritance is based exclusively in the nucleus

1890 O. Hertwig and T. Boveri described the meioses in detail

1900 -1944

1900 - rediscovery of Mendel's work Hugo de Vries Carl Correns Erich von Tschermak

1902 Archibald Garrod - This may have been an independent rediscovery.

Text iGenetics by Peter J. Russell

This web site is provided for instruction in Botany and Zoology 342

by Kenneth G. Wilson,
Professor of Botany
Miami University
wilsonkg@muohio.edu