How Did Man Find Out About Heredity?

Every living and growing thing in the world, whether animal or plant produces young of its own kind or species and no other. This happens because of heredity.
However the offspring of any two parents need not all be the same in their traits, such as look, colouring and physical and mental condition. Their differences also result from heredity.
Heredity traits are traits which form from inside the baby at the very second that his life begins. The first fact from which the whole modern science of heredity was developed was discovered by an Austrian monk, Gregor Mendel, in the mid 19th century.
Mendel was experimenting with sweet peas in his garden. He discovered that in the seeds from parent plants, there were a large number of different factors that always worked by certain rules to control what a plant growing out of the seeds would look like. We now call these factors 'genes'. But it was not until 1900, 16 years after Mendel's death, the other scientists saw how important his findings were. They called his discoveries 'the Mendelian Laws'.

Today, science has achieved great success in the field of heredity which was started by the Austrian Month, Gregor Mendel.

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