Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk and scientist who is best known for his work on the inheritance of traits in pea plants. His work helped to establish the field of genetics and his findings are the basis of the modern science of genetics.
Mendel conducted experiments on pea plants over the course of several years, carefully tracking the inheritance of various traits. He found that traits are inherited in a predictable manner, with each parent contributing one copy of a particular gene to their offspring.
Mendel also discovered that some traits are dominant, while others are recessive. He theorized that each organism has two copies of each gene, one from each parent, and that the two copies can be different. If the two copies of a gene are different, then the dominant gene will be expressed and the recessive gene will be hidden. However, if the two copies of a gene are the same, then that gene will be expressed.
Mendel’s findings were initially met with skepticism but were eventually accepted by the scientific community. His work laid the foundation for the study of genetics and has helped to explain the inheritance of many traits in humans and other organisms.
