Austrian botanist and founder of the science of genetics. Through years of experiments with plants, chiefly garden peas, he discovered the principle of the inheritance of characteristics through the combination of genes from parent cells.

• 孟德尔，格雷戈尔·约翰1822－1884奥地利植物学家，遗传学之创始人。经过几年的植物实验，主要是对豌豆做的实验，他发现了母体特征之遗传是通过母体细胞之基因组合来实现的这一遗传定律