Augustin Sageret (27 July 1763 – 23 March 1851) was a French botanist. In 1826, Sageret carried out an experiment that involved hybridizing a

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. He has been described as a precursor to

Gregor Mendel Gregor Johann Mendel Order of Saint Augustine, OSA (; ; ; 20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was an Austrian Empire, Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, Augustinians, Augustinian friar and abbot of St Thomas's Abbey, Brno, St. Thom ...

. Zirkle, Conway. (1951). ''Gregor Mendel & His Precursors''. ''

Isis Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingdom () as one of the main characters of the Osiris myth, in which she resurrects her sla ...

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1763 births 1851 deaths 19th-century French botanists Proto-evolutionary biologists 18th-century French botanists {{France-scientist-stub