Question

Gregor Mendel is ofkn referred to as the Father of Genetics, since he fist enunciated the principles of heredity. His experimental material was
(1) Fruit fly
(2) Bread mould
(3) Pea plant
(4) Rhesus monkey

Answer 1

Gregor Johann Mendel is known as the father of genetics born in 1822 in Eastern Europe in a famous family he was educated in a monastery and he studied science and mathematics at the University of Vienna he discovered the principles of heredity by studying the inheritance of seven contrasting traits of the garden pea plant pisum sativum these traits on crossing over inherited in fixed mathematical ratios and retain their identities however the traits did not blend mental concluded that the contrasting characters in pea plant are controlled by certain units called factors mendel's factors were identified as jeans by scientists later reasons are located on the chromosomes it was coined by direct voter list Jonathan in 1900 and 9 years are the units of inheritance for your answer as his experimental material was the pea plant