Mendelism
The contribution of Mendel to Genetics is called Mendelism. Mendel is the Father of Genetics.

Mendel
Mendel is the Father of Genetics. He was born in a peasant family in 1822 in Austria. He worked as a teacher. He passed his later life as an abbot. He died in 1884.

Mendel was fond of gardening and fruit-culture from his boyhood. When he was working as teacher, he performed a series of experiments with pea plants in the garden. His work contains inheritance of characters in 22 varieties of garden peas. His papers were published in 1866 and 1867 in the proceedings of Natural History Society of Brunn.