On July 22, 1822, Gregor Mendel was born in Heinzendorf, Moravia of the Austrian Empire (now Czechoslovakia). His family, who spoke German, was a peasant family. While still young he worked as a gardener. Ironically, agriculture did not suit him well, and Mendel had no intention of deepening his efforts in this particular field of work. Fortunately, Mendel caught the attention of one of his teachers with his intelligence. As a young man he attended the Olomouc Philosophical Institute. Eventually, however, Mendel could no longer pay for his education, so he left the university. In 1843 Mendel decided to join the Augustinian Abbey of St. Thomas in Brno; his incentive was to attempt to evade his financial problems, as well as reside in an environment that promoted experimentation and education.1 It is very likely that Mendel never felt a religious calling but saw the order as a free way to deepen his studies. He remained in the Augustinian Abbey throughout his life. While living in the Abbey, Mendel changed his name from Johann to Gregor upon entering monastic life; he was then ordained a priest in 1847. In 1851 he was transferred to the University of Vienna for study purposes, and returned to the Abbey in 1853. It was at the University of Vienna that Mendel acquired the scientific knowledge that made him famous. research with plants and heredity possible. Gregor Mendel, whose studies were integral to the foundations of modern genetics, contributed to the preamble of the scientific discovery we see today, provoking revolutionary ideas and a rebirth of scientific progress. Before Mendel's work with pea plants, he raised mice. Because the local bishop found rat breeding offensive... middle of paper... red people and blacks breeding. Many experiments have been conducted on people who were in prison or who had committed a crime. Most whites agreed with these laws and did not mix with other races during that time. People were warned that children born of mixed marriages between contrasting races are of the "inferior kind." They also warned that racial mixing is “a social and racial crime”. Furthermore, intermarriage would lead America toward “racial suicide” and the eventual demise of white civilization. These ideas originated from Gregor Mendel's discovery of how genes are passed from plant to plant and the same from human to human. Mendel's discovery influenced many different things such as agriculture, eugenics in the United States of America and even helped people better understand the theory of evolution and answered many questions on the topic.