Gregor Mendel

Father of modern genetics through pea plant breeding experiments establishing laws of inheritance.

Core Principles & Analysis

• Bred roughly 28,000 pea plants in his monastery garden between 1856 and 1863.
• His 1866 paper on inheritance was largely ignored until its rediscovery in 1900.
• Established the laws of segregation and independent assortment.

Specifications & Metrics

• ERA: 1822-1884