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Don't warn the tadpoles! wrote: Where did he come up with the name Greg Mendell? Gregor Mendel was an Austrian priest/monk who was also a scientist/botanist who discovered genetic traits in peas. For those of you who remember high school biology class might remember the Mendel square, which is used to help determine the possibility of certain traits in offspring (like eye color or hair color). Mendel's work was not truly understood or believed until after his death, therefore many people thought him mad. As mentioned above it is possible that Owen as a child told his story of magic many times and people thought he was also crazy...

I am thinking that the writers chose the name for him due to this, and the reason Owen's name was changed has to do with the fact he was adopted by someone else, since his mother was dead and his father went missing/"abandoned" him.

On another note, could it be possible that since TPTB like name play and such that Tamara could be the Princess from Princess and the Pea? She is highly thought to be "Her" by many, and her connection to Greg Mendell and since the real Gregor Mendel experimented on peas would fit nicely into this theory...