Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884) is a German-speaking Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar who gains posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics.

Mendel demonstrates that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance.

Although the significance of Mendel's work is not recognized until the turn of the 20th century, the independent rediscovery of these laws forms the foundation of the modern science of genetics.

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