Mendel is known as
Gregor Mendel is recognised as Father of genetics for pioneering systematic experiments on pea inheritance between 1856 and 1863 in Brno monastery. He applied quantitative analysis counting progeny phenotypes, deduced laws of segregation and independent assortment and proposed particulate factors maintained discrete across generations. While molecular biology, evolution and cytology have distinct founders like Watson and Crick, Darwin and Waldeyer, Mendel's methodological rigour founded transmission genetics, providing framework for breeding, genetic counselling and modern genomics that underp
Ref: Mendel 1866, Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden; Hartl, Genetics, Father of Genetics