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Gregor Mendel was a scientist who was born on July 20, 1822. As a young boy, he worked on his family's farm, which they had owned for over one hundred years. It was there he learned about raising fruits and vegetables. His family was small. His mother, Rosine Mendel, was pregnant many times, with nearly all of the children dieing at birth. His father, Anton Mendel, was the main provider of the family, and owner of the farm. Mendel also had two sisters, one being younger, and one being older.

As a small child, Mendel didn't get much of a formal education. At a young age, his father died. To provide for his family, he decided to become a priest. He went to the Abbey of St. Thomas, where when training to become a priest, he received a proper education. The Abbot of the Abbey, Father Knap, influenced young Mendel greatly, and he supported Mendel's expiriments. For many years he worked here, doing menial tasks.

Although he gained minor support from the Abbot, most of his co workers didn't enjoy him preforming expiriments. Some accused him of blasphemy, saying that his works went against the word of God. Mendel always denied this, being an extremely religous person himself. He beleived that the Bible left many subjects open to interpretation, and that his works in no way went against the the Church.

After being denied access to expiriment breeding with small animals such as mice, he turned to two main subjects, bees and peas. Mendel chose the pea plant because it had multiple variables to expiriment, including color, size, and whether or not it was wrinkled or smooth. As his expiriments went on, he kept extremely detailed notes, which contained information on nearly all of his 29,000 pea plants that he cultivated.

Mendel was inspired by his colleagues at the University to begin these expirments. Using the Abbey's garden, he grew his pea plants. After trial and error, his work eventually proved that one in four of the pea plants he expirimented on had pure recessive alleles. This was definitive proof that he had hoped everyone would accept at the local scientific society's meeting.

Mendel's work, despite being correct, was once more disregarded. The members of the scientific society thought he was trying to answer questions that English naturalist Charles Darwin had already answered with his natural selection theory. This is not what he was doing, with Mendel's work actually serving as a companion to that of Darwin's, instead of an alternative. Mendel attempted to bring up his revised work more than once, but it was never received well, only being cited three times.

After the death of Father Knap, Mendel, now much older, was chosen as the new abbot of the St. Thomas Abbey. Although he was now more free to preform expirments as the abbot, running the abbey took up most of his time. His expiriments basically ended after he fought the local government who would try to impose tax on religious facilities. He still did small work with bees, once creating a strain so vicious they had to be destroyed.

Mendel died on Janruary 6, 1884, from chronic nephritis. He was 61 years old. Mendel's work and research was burned by the succeeding abbot, who didn't agree with his work, nor like the debates it sparked up. It wasn't until the early 20th century that his work was rediscovered, and widely accepted. It is now considered some of the most important work in biology, with no one else having tried what he did. His theories on inheritance are still what he follow today. He is often known as the "Father of Genetics".