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Gregor Mendel's Honor

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In the dictionary, honor is defined as “high respect”. To me, honor is when somebody does something to better the lives of the people around them and they get, like the dictionary states, respect for their achievement. I think a very honorable scientist is a man known as “The father of modern genetics”, Gregor Mendel.
Gregor Mendel was born in 1822 on his family’s farm in what is now the Czech Republic. He spent his early years on the farm until age 11 when a schoolmaster who was taken by his proclivity for learning recommended that he be sent to a school in Troppau to continue his education. He graduated in 1840 with honors. After graduating, Mendel enrolled to the Philosophical Institute of the University of Olmutz. Again, He was recognized
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