LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The way in which traits are passed from one generation to the next-and sometimes skip generations-was first explained by Gregor Mendel. By experimenting with pea plant breeding, Mendel developed three principles of inheritance that described the transmission of genetic traits, before anyone knew genes existed.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hippocrates (c. 460–c. 375 bce), known as the father of medicine, believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics, and, to account for this, he devised the hypothesis known as pangenesis.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gregor Mendel was an Austrian scientist, teacher, and Augustinian prelate who lived in the 1800s. He experimented on garden pea hybrids while living at a monastery and is known as the father of modern genetics.

Detailed explanation-4: -Known for his pea plant experiments, Mendel is now regarded as the ‘father of genetics’ because he worked out so much about how traits are passed from one generation to the next, despite living long before anyone had heard of DNA, chromosomes or genes.