Gregor Mendel, who was the first person to trace the characteristics of successive generations of a living thing, was not a world-renowned scientist of his time. Rather, he was an Augustinian monk who was trying to get a teacher's degree. Mendel studied at the St. Thomas Monastery of the Augustinian Order in Brunn around 1850. Mendel started his research of heredity by breeding different varieties of mice, but some other monks weren't really very supportive of …showed first 75 words of 590 total…

…showed last 75 words of 590 total…recessive. Mendel was able to prove that the dominant traits always mask the recessive traits. His work led to the understanding of genotypes and phenotypes in plants and the concept of heterozygous and homozygous organisms and the numerical ratios that are always true for both monohybrid and dihybrid crosses. Mendel's work and theories became the basis for the study of heredity; he was without any doubt, the father of genetics. <Tab/>