This year was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics. So scientists exhumed his body and examined his own DNA.
, a molecular biologist on the research team, felt that a heavy sense of responsibility came with being part of this effort.
"He analyzed a set of about 25,000 plants to actually get his numbers right and to create the formulas," says Pardy."And so in this regard he was also kind of a visionary and one step ahead." The excavation of Mendel's tomb revealed five coffins, stacked one on top of the other. That was a bit of a surprise, given that the tomb's marker had the names of only four Augustinian brothers.
Curators at local museums let them swab items like Mendel's microscopes, his eyeglasses, written records of his meteorological measurements, and a cigarette case. The team also carefully searched inside Mendel's favorite books and, in a book about astronomy, found a hair.
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