The field of genetics began in the mid-19th century with the work of Gregor Mendel, often referred to as the "father of genetics." Mendel's experiments with pea plants laid the foundation for the science of genetics as we know it today.
Arguably with Gregor Johann Mendel (1822 - 1884).
He undertook several breeding experiments with peas and thus he deduced the general rules of inheritance. His work was purely phenomenological, as he didn't understand how the characteristics were being passed down from generation to generation, but his works (when rediscovered) were a good start, as he was among the first biologists to use mathematical methods in his experiments.
Mendel began his work in 1856, ended his experiments in 1863, and published his work in February of 1865. His conclusions were heavily criticized, and then forgotten for 30 years.
"J is for Mendelian inheritance, named after Gregor Mendel, who discovered the principles of genetic inheritance by studying pea plants. This type of inheritance follows predictable patterns of dominant and recessive traits in offspring."
The year was 1851. Gregor Mendel, a young priest from a monastery in Central Europe, entered the University of Vienna to study mathematics and science. Two years later, Mendel returned to the monastery and began teaching at a nearby high school.Mendel also cared for the monastery's garden, where he grew hundreds of pea plants. He became curious about why some of the plants had different physical characteristics, or traits. Some pea plants grew tall while others were short. Some plants produced green seeds, while others had yellow seeds.Mendel observed that the pea plants' traits were often similar to those of their parents. Sometimes, however, the pea plants had different traits than their parents. The passing of traits from parents to offspring is called heredity. For more than ten years, Mendel experimented with thousands of pea plants to understand the process of heredity. Mendel's work formed the foundation of genetics, the scientific study of heredity.
Famous scientists that contributed to the field of genetics are: * Watson and Crick * Rosaline FranklinGregor Mendel * Barbara McClintock * Linus Pauling Of course there are many more, but this is a good start. ---- Linus Pauling * Linus Pauling and the Race for DNA: A Documentary History
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The realization that traits and certain diseases can be passed from parent to offspring stretches back at least to the ancient Greeks, well before any genome was actually decoded. People often said that people and other things showed that they were 'blended' and that they showed traits from mom and dad that were blended.That changed when a monk from Austria noted that when he bred pea plants that different out comes were seen. He spent many years keeping notes and records for the monastery.The first person to put heredity to the test was Gregor Mendel, who systematically tracked dominant and recessive traits in his famous pea plants. Mendel published his work on the statistics of genetic dominance in 1866 to little notice.But the painstaking work of cross-breeding pea plants wouldn't be unnoticed for long. In 1869, Swiss physician Johannes Friedrich Miescher became the first scientist to isolate nucleic acids, the active ingredient of DNA. Now the ideas that Mendel proposed made sense.
Start by researching the history of your school and Republic day. That is a good place to start.