The laws of heredity were
discovered by Gregor Mendel in about 1856-
1863. Mendel conducted experiments in plant
hybridization, collecting the results of cross-
fertilizing hundreds of edible pea plants. The
results from Menders experiments confirmed his
ideas about heredity: the law of segregation,
which has become known as Mendel's First Law,
and the law of independent assortment, also
known as Mendel's Second Law.