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Austrian friar and scientist (–)

Gregor Johann MendelOSA (; Czech: Řehoř Jan Mendel;^[2] 20 July ^[3] – 6 January ) was an Austrian^[4][5] biologist, meteorologist,^[6] mathematician, Augustinianfriar and abbot of St.

Thomas' Abbey in Brno (Brünn), Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of the Austrian Empire (today's Czech Republic) and gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics.^[7] Though farmers had known for millennia that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel's pea plant experiments conducted between and established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance.^[8]

Mendel worked with seven characteristics of pea plants: plant height, pod shape and color, seed shape and color, and flower position and color.

Taking seed color