Common Quote by Gregor Mendel

My experiments with single traits all lead to the same result: that from the seeds of hybrids, plants are obtained half of which in…

— Gregor Mendel

If A denotes one of the two constant traits, for example, the dominating one, a the recessive, and the Aa the hybrid form in…

— Gregor Mendel

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

— Peter R. Grant

In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively…

— Gregor Mendel

“I hope you will understand it! Linnaeus says the plants get married and make new plant families, and then those families intermarry and create…

— Maryrose Wood

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences…

— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

“Although all the characteristics of living things are dependent on both genetic and environmental factors, the differences between two individuals in their attributes may…

— John Alcock

“As the species of the same genus usually have, though by no means invariably, much similarity in habits and constitution, and always in structure,…

— Charles Darwin

“It has already been stated that various parts in the same individual, which are exactly alike during an early embryonic period, become widely different…

— Charles Darwin

Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that there would not be one that resembles another, and not only plants as a…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange.

— John Kehoe