Gregor Mendel was a Augustinian priest born on July 20, 1822. Mendel was born to a german family and worked as a beekeeper and gardner which explains his studies with plants. Mendel first started experimenting and studying plants after some of colleagues asked him to study some of the variations between two plants. After a while Mendel started to notice traits and similarities that kept popping up. He wrote down these variations which later became known as Mendel's Laws of Inheritance. After finishing his work with pea plants he later tried to conduct the same experiments with honey bees but ended up producing a very mean and nasty breed of them and decided to stop. Mendel died at on January 6, 1884 at the young age of 61.
