Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) was an Augustinian friar who served as Abbot of St Thomas’s Abbey, Brno, in modern day Czech Republic. Largely unknown during his life, he later became recognized as the founding father of which discipline?
Answer: Genetics. He published research on the development of “recessive” and “dominant” traits in inheritance in 1866. This was largely ignored at the time and his pioneering conclusions were not appreciated until the beginning of the 20th century, nearly 30 years after his death.
Source: Mendel and the Laws of Genetics by Heather Hasan
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