Gregor Mendel

Both science and mātauranga pūtaiao build knowledge and understanding about our world. Often, we start with curiosity about something we’ve noticed and we want to find...

He tohunga ō tātou tūpuna mō te āta mātaitanga. He mea whakamōhio i a rātou ngā raraunga mai i ngā mātaitanga i te manaakitanga o te...

Māori knowledge and methods are increasingly being incorporated into New Zealand’s conservation practices. In this story, we meet researcher Dr Priscilla Wehi who uses both mātauranga...

Our understanding of how inherited traits are passed between generations comes from principles first proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1866. Mendel worked on pea plants, but...

Gregor Mendel’s principles of inheritance were based on his experiments with peas in the 1860s. 150+ years later, scientists have identified the gene for Mendel’s pea...

Why do offspring resemble their parents? The discovery of the molecule that is passed from a parent to their offspring was a key development in biology....