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Not really. Depends a lot on how you define 'discovery'.

Heredity was known by farmers and breeders for a long time.

What Mendel specifically discovered was essentially genetics, i.e. the effect of genes and dominant and recessive genes, as well as a study on the actual numbers related to them (which percentage of the offspring would inherit what characteristics).

So he probably did the first significant scientific study of heredity, but didn't discover it.

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He performed artificial pollination with pea plants.

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He was a monk who experimented with peas and the experiments were based on heredity. Now he was as you call "breeding" pea plants and sought to find a pattern.

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