Ask a Teacher



WHO IS MENDEL?

 Mendel is the Father of Genetics. In 1865, Gregor Johann Mendel, an Augustinian priest in a Brno monastery, described to the Brno Natural Science Society the transfer of determinants in pea plants Experiments with Plant Hybrids, in which Gregor J. Mendel described how traits were inherited, has become one of the most enduring and influential publications in the history of science. Until 1900, no one recognized that Gregor J. Mendel had discovered the Law of Heredity.His research has come to be seen as the first rigorous, scientific explanation of heredity, and the foundation for modern genetics.


comments powered by Disqus