Google Doodle Celebrates Gregor Mendel's Birthday: Brilliant or Boring?

by SodaHead News Posted 2011/07/20 17:29:55

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Today would have been the 189th birthday of Gregor Mendel, the Austrian botanist credited as being the "father of modern genetics" for his early work in discovering dominant and recessive hereditary traits in peas.

That explain's Google's newest doodle.

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Mendel spent much of his time from 1856 to 1863 cultivating and studying pea plants to help him outline how genes are passed on and in what capacity, eventually leading to his Laws of Inheritance.

His discoveries are still central to the study of genetics.

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rand 2011/07/20 23:11:28

Brilliant

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Emphasizing science and scientific accomplishments can only benefit a society reliant on reason, like ours will someday, hopefully, be.
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16 2011/07/20 22:19:28

Brilliant

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That's why my google looked like that! I am so stupid! I should have realized!

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Patriot Unit 2011/07/20 22:03:10

Boring

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Sounds like he was working for the UN. If he got the results before the question, lol.

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FordCrews 2011/07/20 21:43:09

Boring

He was an admitted fraud, who faked his research to get the results he wanted. In this case he happened to have been right, but that doesn't make him someone we should applaud.

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Adam 2011/07/20 21:40:24

Brilliant

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Its something that shaped a large portion of our modern scientific understanding, making the world an IMMENSELY better place. Google does something great by highlighting fantastic pieces of historical achievements that might otherwise go unappreciated by many. Good work Google.

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Matthew Frankwitt 2011/07/20 21:38:23

Brilliant

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Definitely brilliant, I mean, come one he's the father of genetics! Also, his stuff is the only stuff I remember from biology.

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abubincrazy 2011/07/20 21:29:10

Brilliant

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He's the gene genie. Genius!
Glucklicher Wiesbaden, uberfuhrer schwanzgruber!

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Gabhain to abubinc... 2011/07/21 05:31:53

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Who's gruben whose schwanz?

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abubinc... to Gabhain 2011/07/21 12:43:09

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I dunno. It sounded funny to the voices in my head. :)

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KB 2011/07/20 21:14:27

Brilliant

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He pretty much laid down the foundation for geneticism.

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Gray Pilgrim 2011/07/20 20:39:49

Brilliant

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Now if he were alive now he might be able to explain the recessive intelligence of Obama and Whorey Reid Duncy Pelosi.. as it is a rampant deficiency in the democratic gene pool

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Katie 2011/07/20 20:33:49

Brilliant

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How is this in anyway boring? Mendel was a genius, and without him I doubt we'd know half of what we currently do about genentics.

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Everarianas 2011/07/20 20:32:47

Brilliant

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How was he boring? His research and findings were revolutionary.

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Chokmah to Everari... 2011/07/21 03:33:40

Yeah, I know.... you slept with him....B-O-R-I-N-G

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Everari... to Chokmah 2011/07/25 04:43:04

?

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NarcolepticGoat 2011/07/20 20:29:58

Brilliant

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Want to understand how science works? Study this guy's work

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Jacob M... to Narcole... 2011/07/21 17:42:10

Even chemistry?

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Narcole... to Jacob M... 2011/07/21 18:09:06

the thinking process, not specific subjects

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Chokmah 2011/07/20 20:27:47

Brilliant

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Mendel is the Father of Genetics. The modern world should build a museum honoring this genius, who was also a great Christian.

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2468 to Chokmah 2011/07/21 02:10:30

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Sounds like the start of a joke:

What do you get when you cross a Christian with a Muslim?

(Insert funny answer here)

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brian to 2468 2011/07/21 02:53:56

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I dunno? The Crusades?

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Chokmah to brian 2011/07/21 03:32:06

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LOL...... Hey, that's pretty good!!

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2468 to brian 2011/07/22 00:51:44

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Actually, you would not ever want to cross a Christian....or for that matter a Muslim.

All that "EYE FOR AN EYE" stuff.

Some of them you can see are toothless already.

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Chokmah to 2468 2011/07/22 15:00:37

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"An eye for an eye" is not Muslim or Christian. It's from the other bloodthirsty Abrahamic religion...

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Gabhain to 2468 2011/07/21 05:34:24

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A really confused agnostic.

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Fred 2011/07/20 20:11:21

Brilliant

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Until they start playing god with humans

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2468 to Fred 2011/07/21 02:11:18

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Just today I found out my mother has cancer.
I am glad that we can do some things that would be considered ungodly in the past.

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llshadowz 2011/07/20 20:09:34

Brilliant

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YEAHHHHHHHHH ALRIGHT!!!
THE FATHER OF GENETICS!!!!

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JakeisHere 2011/07/20 19:57:50

Brilliant

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Smart guy.

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mae 2011/07/20 19:49:16

Brilliant

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Nice!

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Tuna 2011/07/20 19:34:34

Boring

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That's ole LIB David Letterman in that photo isn't it?

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abubinc... to Tuna 2011/07/20 21:31:06 (edited)

He got him some purty chiclets!

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Keen Tojones 2011/07/20 19:32:31

Brilliant

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He began the great search for DNA.

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Tuna to Keen To... 2011/07/20 19:41:53

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God did; did you know in the book of Genesis where it talks about God taking a rib from Adam to make Eve? that word "RIB" in ancient hebrew is curve; the helix curve

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Keen To... to Tuna 2011/07/20 19:47:25 (edited)

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Tuna to Keen To... 2011/07/20 19:52:40

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God didn't clone; LOL !!!!!!!!!! That's manmade fiction; that sheep Dolly? fiction!! Man can't create life.

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Keen To... to Tuna 2011/07/20 19:53:31

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Removing life substance from one being to create another would be called cloning.

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Tuna to Keen To... 2011/07/20 20:00:07

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Clone used to define horticultural experimentation; modern man changed that so that it is to mean "identical"; we all have different fingerprints, different DNA/RNA; different pupils in our eyes; nothing identical but I still love you.

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Keen To... to Tuna 2011/07/20 20:04:04 (edited)

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Tuna to Keen To... 2011/07/20 20:18:16 (edited)

K,bye, now

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2468 to Tuna 2011/07/21 02:13:49

Watson and Crick were then divinely inspired to reveal (revelation) that DNA is a double stranded helix.

Might it be that God gives us bread crumbs to find the secrets to the universe.

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