Question

Which one of the following scientists is known as the father of genetics?
1. Gregor Mendel
2. Charles Darwin
3. Hargobind Khorana
4. T. H. Morgan

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Gregor Mendel

The correct answer is Gregor Mendel.

• Gregor Mendel is considered the father of genetics. 
• Genetics is the branch of biology that studies the genes, variation in genes, and heredity in living organisms.
• Genes are small units of DNA, which contain instructions for how to make proteins.
  • Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) contains all of the information necessary to build and maintain an organism.
  • Whenever organisms reproduce, a portion of their DNA is passed along to their offspring.
• We get 23 chromosomes from our mother and 23 from our father.
  • A chromosome contains many genes.

• Charles Darwin is considered the father of evolution.
• Har Gobind Khorana won the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for cracking the genetic code.
• Thomas Hunt Morgan was an American evolutionary biologist 
  • He showed that genes are linked in a series of chromosomes and are responsible for identifiable, hereditary traits.