The Genesis of Genetics
The Genesis of Genetics The first humans on Earth must have pondered upon the observation that children resembled their parents more than other members of their population. But unfortunately, we do not have record of their ideas as to why this occurred. Hippocrates and Aristotle were obviously extensively thoughtful about this fact that they developed theories to explain resemblance among relatives. The story of genetics begins long before the term was coined. Ancient civilizations, including the Greeks and Romans, noticed that traits could be passed down from parents to offspring. However, they lacked the scientific framework to explain these observations. The true genesis of genetics awaited the advent of modern science. Genetics as we know today, based on the "gene theory of inheritance", began with the work of Gregor Johann Mendel who is appropriately called the "father of genetics". His precedent-setting experiments with garden peas, published