translate English to German: Mendel lived around the same time as the British naturalist Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 ) and many have fantasized about a historical evolutionary synthesis of Darwinian natural selection and Mendelian genetics during their lifetimes. Mendel had read a German translation of Darwin's Origin (as evidenced by underlined passages in the copy in his monastery), after completing his experiments but before publishing his paper.
Mendel gelang es, durch Kreuzungsversuche mit reinrassigen Zuchtformen von Erbsen, die sich nur in wenigen Erbanlagen ( Gen en) unterscheiden, die Vererbungsgesetze zu beschreiben.