House of Mendel

Gregor Mendel lived from 1822-1884. He worked in the field of biology, which is the science of life or living matter in all its forms and phenomena. Biologists study the origin, growth, reproduction, structure, and behavior of living things.

Gregor Mendel contributed to biology with his law of heredity. He used pea plants in his garden for his experiments. Mendel traced seven basic characteristics in pea plants. He developed three basic laws that govern the passage of traits from one member to another of the same species. The first law states that the sex cells of a plant may contain two different traits, but not both of those traits. The second law states that characteristics are inherited independently from one another. The third law states that each inherited characteristic is determined by two hereditary factors, one from each parent, that decide whether a gene is dominant or recessive. Mendel's work later became the basis for the study of modern genetics and is still recognized and used today. His work also led to the discovery of inheritance, dominant and recessive traits, genotype and phenotype, and the concepts of heterozygous and homozygous gene combinations. A fun fact about Mendel is that he was a monk.

The mascot for the House of Mendel is the monkey. The house color is blue. Wizards of the House of Mendel are often intelligent explorers of nature. They also have perseverance and never give up as they are very patient.