who is gregor mendel?

Gregor Johann Mendel (1822–1884) was an Austrian biologist, mathematician, meteorologist, and Augustinian friar, widely recognized as the founder of modern genetics. He conducted pioneering experiments on pea plants between 1856 and 1863 in the garden of his monastery in Brno (now in the Czech Republic), where he studied the inheritance of traits such as seed color, shape, and plant height. Mendel discovered fundamental laws of heredity, now known as Mendel's laws of inheritance, which describe how traits are passed from parents to offspring through discrete units called genes. His key contributions include the concepts of dominant and recessive traits, the segregation of gene pairs during reproduction, and the independent assortment of different traits. Although his work was published in 1866, it was not widely recognized until around 1900, after which it became the foundation of modern genetics. Mendel's research demonstrated that inheritance follows predictable mathematical patterns, laying the groundwork for the understanding of genetic inheritance and the study of genes