GREGOR MENDEL
Mendel combined his science expertise and experience of working as a gardener to unravel the basic principles of how you became you. Your genes are sequences of DNA passed from your parents onto you, determining all of your inherited traits. In the 19th century, the process of inheriting curly hair, a specific blood type or eye colour was thought to be caused by a merging of both of your parent’s genes.
Mendel – who spent eight
