A Key Human Gene Modifies the Immune Response to Flu Vaccine. 1  Dec. 11, 2014 â How much protection the annual flu shot provides depends on how well the vaccine (which is designed based on a 'best guess' for next season's flu strain) matches the actually ...
Gregor Mendel is known as the Father of Modern Genetics. He is a pretty big name in the science world. However, he did not receive any of this credit while he was alive. We'll come back to this later. Mendel was born in Austria in 1822. His parents were farmers. When he was young and on the farm, Mendel became very interested in plants, trees, and fruit.
1 In 1869, the Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev discovered a set of patterns in the properties of the elements. 2  He noticed that a pattern of properties appeared when he arranged the elements in order of increasing atomic mass. In the periodic table, the properties of the elements repeat in each period, or row, of the table. 2  Mendeleev left three blank spaces in the table. 3  He predicted that these spaces would be filled by elements that had not yet been discovered.