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Gregor Mendel Gregor Mendel who is often called the "Father of Genetics" was born on July 22, 1822 to a relatively poor farming family in Heizendorf. As a child he worked as a gardener, and then entered the Olmutz Philisophical Institute. In 1843 he entered the Augustinian monastery in Brunn (Brno), which at that time was known for being one of the best centres of learning in the scientific field. He was ordained as a priest in 1847. He went to study science and mathematics at the University of Vienna but failed his tests to receive a teaching degree. His teachers and colleagues at the University encouraged him to start doing experiments on plants, and so he later returned to the monastery where he became an abbot and spent the rest of his life. At the monastery, he started investigations of variation, heredity and evolution of plants at the monastery's experimental...

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