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Gregor Mendel is called the father of genetics. He was a monk who studied pea plants to find out about genetics. He discovered many new things.

A:Discovered the dominant and recessive mode of genetic inheritance A:http://www.biojuris.com/natural/index.html (Exact quote)

Gregor Mendel was carrying out experiments that would establish the foundation of modern genetics. In the classic experiments on peas performed by Mendel from 1857 to 1863, he found that each physical trait of the plant was controlled independently by its own unique pair of factors that he called elementen. These elementen are now known as genes. Each parent packages half of its genes into its gamete, the egg and sperm. Upon fertilization and conception, the embryo offspring inherits equal parts of its mother's and father's genes. The importance of Mendel's work went completely unrecognized during his lifetime. It wasn't until the early twentieth century when a new generation of scientists began to unravel the mechanism of heredity that the buried genius of his work was discovered.

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