Question

Short note on Gregor johann mendel.

Answer 1

Gregor Johann Mendel (1822 – 1884):

• Gregor Johann Mendel was considered as ‘Father of Genetics’.
• He was the first person to trace the characteristics of successive generations of a living thing.
• He was an Augustinian monk. So he did all his experiments in the monastery garden.
• Mendel made many careful observations of plants and chose pea plants for his experiments through which he made the law of inheritance.
• His work was so brilliant and unprecedented at the time it appeared, that it took thirty-four years for the rest of the scientific community to catch up to it