Mendel’s Groundbreaking Laws of Inheritance

Did you know that, thanks to his groundbreaking laws of inheritance, the world considers Gregory Mendel the father of genetics? Believe it or not, this Austrian scientist based the laws on the results of his experiments with pea plants. In fact, inheritance is the process of how a child receives genetic information from the parent. The whole process of heredity depends upon inheritance. Likewise, it’s the reason that the offsprings are similar to their parents. In other words, due to inheritance, the members of the same family possess similar characteristics. It was only during mid-19th century that people started to…