Editing Heredity (section)

===Gregor Mendel: father of genetics===
[[File:Independent assortment & segregation.svg|thumb|Table showing how the genes exchange according to segregation or independent assortment during [[meiosis]] and how this translates into Mendel's laws]]
{{Main|Gregor Mendel}}
{{See also|Modern synthesis (20th century)}}
The idea of particulate inheritance of genes can be attributed to the [[Moravia]]n<ref>{{Cite book | last = Henig | first = Robin Marantz | title = The Monk in the Garden : The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics | publisher = Houghton Mifflin | date = 2001 | isbn = 978-0-395-97765-1 | quote = The article, written by an obscure Moravian monk named Gregor Mendel | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/monkingardenlost00heni}}</ref> monk [[Gregor Mendel]] who published his work on pea plants in 1865. However, his work was not widely known and was rediscovered in 1901. It was initially assumed that [[Mendelian inheritance]] only accounted for large (qualitative) differences, such as those seen by Mendel in his pea plants&nbsp;– and the idea of additive effect of (quantitative) genes was not realised until [[Ronald Fisher|R.A. Fisher]]'s (1918) paper, "[[The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance]]" Mendel's overall contribution gave scientists a useful overview that traits were inheritable. His pea plant demonstration became the foundation of the study of Mendelian Traits. These traits can be traced on a single locus.<ref name="Carlson p. 206">Carlson, Neil R.<!-- , et al. other editors are listed in the 2014 edition per WorldCat--> (2010). ''Psychology: the Science of Behavior'', p. 206. Toronto: Pearson Canada. {{ISBN|978-0-205-64524-4}}. {{OCLC|1019975419}}</ref>