Gregor Mendel

Gregor Mendel, also known as "The Father of Modern Genetics", was German-scientist who gained fame as the founder of science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that certain traits in pea plants follow particular patterns which are now know as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. Gregor Mendel conducted his experiments on pea plants during the years 1856 through 1863. Mendel discovered that the traits that pea plants inherited seemed to be determined by seed shape, flower color, seed coat tint, pod shape, unripe pod color, flower location, and plant height. His experiments led him to make two laws, the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment, which are now known as Mendel's Laws of Inheritance. Mendel's work was rejected at first by the science world, so many scientists tried to find other explanations for genetics but were soon given the same results that Mendel was given. Mendel was the first man to give an explanation for genetics and DNA which led to the creation of the science of genetics. Without the discovery of genes by Gregor Mendel nobody would know that DNA existed and the would be no model of DNA.