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Gregor Mendel, a priest from a monastery in Central Europe. He entered the University of Vienna in 1851. He also taught at a nearby high school. While studying pea plants, he developed the punnet square, accurately predicting what traits the offspring will acquire from the parents, generation to generation. Gregor Mendel was considered as the father of genetics because he was the first one to understand how genetic inheritance worked.

However he had no mechanism for genetic inheritance as neither chromosomes nor DNA had been discovered. All he had was a predictable reproducible phenomenon. It took the work of others to discover these mechanisms that produce the phenomenon Gregor Mendel studied.

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Riley Wolf

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