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Who was Mendel ? Why was he called' Father of Genetics'?

Gregor Johann Mendel (1822 – 1884) was a scientist and the founder of the modern science of genetics. He was the first to carryout the study on the transmission of characteristics from the parents to the offsprings. He proposed that heredity is controlled by factors, which are now believed to be segments of chromosomes or genes. He also proposed the law of inheritance. That is why, he is known as father of genetics.

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Mendel was the biologist who introduced law of genetics and variation. He followed pea plant to transfer many traits.
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The full name of mendel was Gregor John Mendel. He worked on Pisum sativum on 7 contrasting characters. He was called father of genetics because he gave 3 laws. Thesre were founded later on by Carl correns, Tschenmark and Hugo de Vries
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Gregor Johann MENDEL was an Austrian monk and biologist whose work on heredity became the basis of the modern theory of genetics.Mendel was born on July 22, 1822 in Heizendorf, Austria, (now known as Hyncice in Czechoslovakia). He was born Johann Mendel into a poor farming family.





 
  1. Gregor Mendel, through his work on pea plants, discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited as distinct units, one from each parent. Mendeltracked the segregation of parental genes and their appearance in the offspring as dominant or recessive traits.

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