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Gregor Mendel is known as the Father of Modern Genetics. He is a pretty big name in the science world. However, he did not receive any of this credit while he was alive. We'll come back to this later. Mendel was born in Austria in 1822. His parents were farmers. When he was young and on the farm, Mendel became very interested in plants, trees, and fruit.
Mendelian Genetics. In the 1860âs, an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel introduced a new theory of inheritance based on his experimental work with pea plants. Prior to Mendel, most people believed inheritance was due to a blending of parental âessencesâ, much like how mixing blue and yellow paint will produce a green color.