Gregor Mendel

Graduated from the University of Vienna and Palacky University in Czech Republic, Gregor Johann Mendel is a scientist who discovered the law of segregation, the law of dominance and the law of independent assortment through his work on plant peas. This report would allow us to dig deeper into who Gregor Johann Mendel is and his discoveries of the law of segregation, the law of independent assortment and the law of dominance. With the help from two peer reviewed journal articles and three or more reliable websites, we could find out on how Gregor Mendel helped the law of modern genetics today and the exception in the Mendelian law on his discovery through his work on plant peas (David Paterson).

Gregor Johann Mendel was born in Hizendorf, Austria in July 22, 1822 with a poor background, it was tough for the poor to afford education and the one way to flee from poverty was to join the Agustinian Order of St Thomas monastery and it has a teaching reputation of studying along with scientific investigations (David Paterson). He was previously an Austrian monk, who had plenty of free time to cross pea plants, (Anonymous 2011). Mendel began his examination into differences and development in plants. Mendel studied Pisum, which is a common garden pea he grew in the monastery garden. In addition, Mendel examined the seven pairs of seed comparison on at least 28,000 seeds over the year 1856-1863. He soon became a scientist who was infamous in the 1860s when he first published his findings on inheritance, but soon after his discoveries were acknowledged and discovered by three scientist, Hugo de Vries who is a Dutch botanist, Erich Tschermak and Carl Correns, Gregor Johann Mendel soon became famous in the 1900s for his findings (Anonymous). He is known as the founding father of modern of genetics as he discovered the fundamental law of inheritance through his pea plant experiment (Ilona Miko. 2008) over the past eight years. Although he did not discover these principles...