Whose work paved the way for improving crops through genetics?

Whose work paved the way for improving crops through genetics?

1. Louis Leakey

2. Edwin Hubble

3. Gregor Mendel

4. Francis Beaufort

Correct Option: Option C,

Gregor Mendel

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Gregor Mendel, known as the "father of modern genetics" ( born in July 22, 1822 -died January 6, 1884) He was botanist, teacher, and Augustinian prelate, the first person to lay the mathematical foundation of the science of genetics, in what came to be called Mendelism. As the architect of genetic experimental and statistical analysis, Mendel remains the acknowledged father of genetics.