Answer:Gregor Johann Mendel was an Austrian biologist whose work on heredity became the modern theory of genetics. Mendel was born on July 22, 1822. Born into a poor farming family and it was difficult for poor families to obtain a good education and Johann Mendel saw the only way to escape a life of poverty was to enter the monastery. Where he was changed his name to Gregor Mendel. This monastery was the Augustinian Order of St Thomas, a teaching order with a reputation as a center of learning and scientific enquiry.
To enable him to push his education further, the abbot pushed for Gregor to attend the University of Vienna to get a diploma for teaching. However, Mendel did not perform well. The University did not see him as a clever student. Mendel's…show more content…
He chose to study in detail the common garden pea, Pisum, which he grew in the monastery garden. During 1856 and 1863 Mendel tested his pea plants reaching a number of maybe 28,000 pea plants, carefully examining seven pairs of seeds for comparison, such as shape of seed, color of seed, tall stemmed and short stemmed and tall plants and short plants looking and the differences in the same plant. Johann Mendel worked on this for many years, carefully wrapping each individual plant to prevent accidental pollination by insects. He collected the seeds produced by the plants and studied these seeds observing that some plants. Johann Mendel discovered that by putting together tall and short parent plants he got hybrid result that resembled the tall parent rather than being a medium height blend. He explained his concept of heredity units, now called genes. These often referred to as dominant or recessive characteristics. He then figured out the pattern of inheritance of various and came up two generalizations that became known as the laws of heredity. Johann Mendel's observations led him to coin two terms, which are still used in present-day genetics: dominant and
