<P> The discoverer of genetics is Gregor Mendel , a late 19th - century scientist and Augustinian friar . Mendel studied `` trait inheritance '' , patterns in the way traits are handed down from parents to offspring . He observed that organisms ( pea plants ) inherit traits by way of discrete `` units of inheritance '' . This term , still used today , is a somewhat ambiguous definition of what is referred to as a gene . </P>
<P> The discoverer of genetics is Gregor Mendel , a late 19th - century scientist and Augustinian friar . Mendel studied `` trait inheritance '' , patterns in the way traits are handed down from parents to offspring . He observed that organisms ( pea plants ) inherit traits by way of discrete `` units of inheritance '' . This term , still used today , is a somewhat ambiguous definition of what is referred to as a gene . </P>
who can be called the father of genetics
who can be called the father of genetics
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel