Gregor Mendel lived during the early 1820’s till the early 1840’s. He grew up on a farm in rural Austria, consequently education was not always the top priority. A teacher noticed his capabilities, and recommended a higher level of schooling, Gregor flourished in his studies, and became a monk. While being a monk, he was sent to a university in Vienna to further his studies. Mendel discovered genetics and heredity after experiments with a pea plant in his garden. He decided on pea plants based off of the rate at which offspring could be produced. Mendel dedicated eight years of his life towards this experiment. After crossing plants with obvious differences, he established the Law of Segregation, stating that there is a dominant and recessive
