Biography: Gregor Johann Mendel was born in 1822, the second child to Anton Mendel, a peasant farmer, and Rosine Mendel, the daughter of a local gardener. This meant that he had a background in horticulture, which would help him in the future with his experiments. At school Mendel did well and his brilliant performance encouraged his family to support his pursuit of a higher education, but their resources were limited, so Mendel entered an Augustinian monastery …showed first 75 words of 330 total…

…showed last 75 words of 330 total…offspring of the same parents receive different sets of hereditary factors. Mendel's work became the foundation for modern genetics. Explanation: I believe that Mendel's ideas and theories were ignored for so long because his work was well 'before his time', meaning that investigations and experiments like he was doing were not a common during or for a long time after his lifetime. It wasn't until many many years later that his theories were finally recognised.