“The purpose of the experiment was to observe these variations in the case of each pair of differentiating characters, and to deduce the law according to which they appear in successive generations.”

About Gregor Mendel

Scientist • Austrian

Gregor Mendel was an Augustinian friar and botanist who is acclaimed as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Through his meticulous work on pea plants, he discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance which...