Ol little Gregor Mendel was born July 20, 1822. He was known as the founder of the modern science of genetics.

In 1843 at age 21 Gregor Mendel entered a monastery in Brunn, Austria. His task of tending the garden gave him a lot of time to observe the growth of many plants.

In 1851, he entered the University of Vienna to study science and mathematics. Mendel's knowledge of statistics later proved valuable in his research on heredity.

He liked to figure out how things work like genetics, pollination, self-pollination, cross-pollination, true-breeding and F1, F2 Generations.

He looked at all the plants in his garden that he could use for his new studies. He didn't like corn and beans but liked peas so he decided to grow peas for his studies. Peas also had better shown characteristics than other plants.

He collected seeds from his pea plants and carefully recorded the traits of each plant and seed. He wanted to see further on how the passed down traits using pollination. Mendel was able to observe how traits were passed down from one generation to the next.

The plants pollinated in different ways like self-pollination and cross-pollination. Self-pollination is when pollen is transferred from the anthers of a flower to the anthers to the stigma of that flower or another on the same plant. Cross-pollination occurs between flowers of different plants.

Gregor observed that there were 7 characteristics in the pea plants. Those characteristics were height, flower position, pod color, pod appearance, seed texture, seed color, and flower color.