Gregor Mendel was an Austrian friar and scientist whose meticulous experiments with pea plants laid the foundation for the modern science of genetics. His groundbreaking work, though unrecognized in his lifetime, revealed the fundamental laws of heredity, explaining how traits are passed from one generation to the next. He is widely known today as the "father of modern genetics."
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