Who is Gregor Mendel?

Gregor Mendel is the Father of Genetics

Mendel is an Augustinian monk and during his free time in the monastery, he researched about the transmission of hereditary traits using garden pea plants.

His experiment lead to these conclusions: The Law of Segregation, which established that there are dominant and recessive traits passed on randomly from parents to offspring (and provided an alternative to blending inheritance, the dominant theory of the time), and the Law of Independent Assortment, which established that traits were passed on independently of other traits from parent to offspring. (www.biography.com)

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