Question

Gregor Mendel discovered

A.) how evolution occurs.
B.) how heredity operates.
C.) why humans evolved.
D.) all of the above.

Answer 1

Gregor Mendel discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments with pea plants, long before the discovery of DNA and genes. Mendel was an Augustinian monk at St Thomas's Abbey near Brünn (now Brno, in the Czech Republic).