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Who is often referred to as the “Father of Heredity?"


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Gregor Mendel, as he used pea plants to discover the laws of inheritance
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Answer: Gregor Mendel is often called the "Father of Genetics." Mendel was a monk who lived in the 1800's in Austria. He was the first person to trace the characteristics of successive generations of a living thing. ... Mendel's work became the basis for the field of genetics, the study of heredity.

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