Gregor Johann Mendel was born July 20 1822 and died January 6 1884. It has been said that he is the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel is known as the " father of modern genetics". He is known for Mendel's Laws which was the Law of Segregation (the "First Law") and the Law of Independent Assortment ( the "Second Law"). The Law of Segregation states that every individual possesses a pair of alleles for any trait and each parent passes a allele to its offspring. The Law of Independent Assortment states that separated genes for separate traits are passed independently of one another from parents to offspring. Mendel started out his experiments on pea plants. He came up with dominant and recessive alleles by crossing over.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelian_inheritance#Law_of_Segregation_.28The_.22First_Law.22.29
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