Practice question

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 underpins NEET and CSIR syllabi. Conceptual clarity supports solving numerical problems involving segregation ratios, recombination frequencies and probability calculations in crosses.