A person’s lifestyle can have an effect on many things in life: health, weight, mind, even personality. However, genes are not one of them. Charles Darwin once proposed a theory known as pangenesis that held that hereditary traits in our bodies are affected by the things we do during our lifetime (Gregory 69). Thankfully to the experiments carried out by one of the leading scientists, Gregor Mendel, the theory mentioned above was proved wrong. Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, is one of the first scientists to test the theories against genetics. He did many experiments with pea plants and provided everyone an understanding of what really happens in the transmission of hereditary traits from parents to children. Common knowledge
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His parents sacrificed financially to meet ends with Mendel’s education. However, it turned out to be well worth it, because Mendel graduated school with honors and in 1840, he joined the University of Olumoc, which was 40 miles away from his home village. Here, he took courses in physics, mathematics and philosophy. In 1843, 21 years old Mendel struggled financially to continue his studies so one of his teachers, Professor Friedrich France advised him to join the Abbey of St. Thomas Monastery in Brno as a monk. Mendel knew that the director of the Abbey was particularly interested in the heredity of traits in plants and animals on farms. Mendel thought that if he joined the monastery, he could continue his studies in sciences, while ensuring he could get by financially. So Mendel, who was more interested in science than religion, became a monk and was given the name Gregor. Gregor Mendel became a priest and got his own parish in 1858. However, as time passed he did not enjoy working as a parish priest so he started working as a high school teacher instead but he failed the exam, which would have qualified him to be a high school teacher. He then went to the University of Vienna, at the monastery’s expenses, to improve his education so that he can become a high school teacher. In 1854, he came back to the monastery and started teaching physics at a school for the next
His parents sacrificed financially to meet ends with Mendel’s education. However, it turned out to be well worth it, because Mendel graduated school with honors and in 1840, he joined the University of Olumoc, which was 40 miles away from his home village. Here, he took courses in physics, mathematics and philosophy. In 1843, 21 years old Mendel struggled financially to continue his studies so one of his teachers, Professor Friedrich France advised him to join the Abbey of St. Thomas Monastery in Brno as a monk. Mendel knew that the director of the Abbey was particularly interested in the heredity of traits in plants and animals on farms. Mendel thought that if he joined the monastery, he could continue his studies in sciences, while ensuring he could get by financially. So Mendel, who was more interested in science than religion, became a monk and was given the name Gregor. Gregor Mendel became a priest and got his own parish in 1858. However, as time passed he did not enjoy working as a parish priest so he started working as a high school teacher instead but he failed the exam, which would have qualified him to be a high school teacher. He then went to the University of Vienna, at the monastery’s expenses, to improve his education so that he can become a high school teacher. In 1854, he came back to the monastery and started teaching physics at a school for the next