Answer:
The correct answer would be Mendel is considered the "father of genetics".
Johann Gregor Mendel is known as Father of Genetics due to his work on pea plants.
He deduced that the genes exist in pairs out of which one is inherited from each parent.
In addition, he was able to recognize the mathematical patterns of inheritance of genes from parent to the offspring.
Based on his experiments and observations, he formulated three laws of inheritance:
- Law of dominance
- Law of segregation
- Law of independent assortment.
