Gregor Mendel is known as the father of modern genetics.
He observed that some pea plants produced round peas while others produced wrinkled peas.
He experimented by breeding together different pea plants to see what shape the peas would be in the offspring. He observed that that if a wrinked and round pea plant were crossed together then the resulting offspring were always produced round peas.
He then bred together two of the F1 generation. They produced a mixture of wrinkled and round peas, but never a cross.
He repeated his experiment several times to make his results reproducable and to show patterns.
Mendel deduced that inherited characteristics are not lost or blended together. He even figured out that two genetic factors were inherited for each character as the characteristics reapeared in the F2 generation.
His work was ignored as nobody new about DNA or genes, they didn't realise the importance of his findings untill much later.
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