Question

Native place of Mendel was
(a) France
(b) Sweden
(c) India
(d) Austria

Answer 1

Hint: Born into a German-speaking family in the Silesian portion of the now the Czech Republic. Mendel was posthumously recognized as the father of modern genetics.

Complete answer:
- Gregor Mendel was an Austrian monk who discovered the basic principles of heredity through experiments in his garden.
- Mendel's observations became the foundation of modern genetics and the study of heredity, and he is widely considered a pioneer in the field of genetics.
- In 1822, Gregor Mendel was born in Austria, regarded as the "father of modern genetics." A monk, through experimentation in his monastery's garden, Mendel discovered the universal concepts of heredity.

Additional information:
- Due to their many distinct varieties, and because offspring could be quickly and easily produced, Mendel chose to use peas for his experiments.
- He cross fertilized the pea plants with distinctly opposite characteristics, high with short, smooth with wrinkled, those containing green seeds with those containing yellow seeds, etc., and drew two of his most important conclusions after examining his results.
- The Law of Segregation, which determined that dominant and recessive characteristics were transferred randomly from parents to offspring.
- The Law of Independent Assortment, which established that characteristics were passed on from parent to offspring independently of other characteristics. He also indicated that this inheritance followed fundamental statistical laws. While Mendel's experiments with pea plants were carried out, he put forth the hypothesis that all living things had certain characteristics.
So, the correct answer is ‘(d) Austria’.

Note:
- When Mendel's research influenced the work of many noted geneticists, botanists, and biologists conducting research on heredity, it was not until decades later that its importance was more thoroughly understood and his studies started to be referred to as the Laws of Mendel.