Scientists of the pastBy Bridget WoodScience homework - Term 3.10-6Heritability is the transfer of genetic characteristics from parents to their child or children or from one generation to the next. Inheritance depends on the segregation and recombination of genes during fertilization and meiosis. Deoxyribonucleic acid, more commonly known as DNA, is shaped like a twisted double helix and is made up of sugars and phosphate groups with nitrogenous bases that include thymine, adenine, cytosine, and guanine. These four nitrogenous bases pair, thymine (T) and adenine (A) pair, and cytosine (C) and guanine (G) pair. DNA contains the genetic information necessary and important for making other cellular components. (Regina Bailey, 2014)Gregor Mendel, also known as the father of genetics, was an Austrian monk who discovered many things such as the fundamental laws of inheritance and that genes come in pairs, one from the mother and one from the father. he also discovered the segregation of parental genes and how they appeared in the child, whether they were dominant or recessive traits. Mendel through his work on pea plants, discovered the detailed laws of inheritance. (Famous Biologists, 2003). Mendel first discovered that if he crossed a wrinkled pea with a round one, the offspring would be round, not a mixture. Yet when he bred the round pea it was then that the offspring were mixed, both round and wrinkled. He then continued to experiment. (The University of Waikato, 16 August 2011). He found that genes occur in pairs and are received as clear units, one from each parent. He knew that genes suffered because offspring had a trait from each parent. Mendel th...... half of the article ......biological organisms at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI). Venter firmly believed that shotgun sequencing (a method used to sequence long strands of DNA) (Wikipedia, 2014.) was the most effective and fastest route to obtaining the useful human genome data he needed. He was fired shortly thereafter and started a new job in 2005 that involved him co-founding Synthetic Genomics, which is dedicated to using modified microorganisms to create clean biochemicals and fuels. Craig Venter now wants to research a way to create bacteria that can be used to fight global warming or make medicines, for example. In conclusion, I believe that much more could be possible in the future of genetics, because if Craig Venter is possible I am researching a way to produce bacteria created for specific reactions, such as producing medicines and producing fuels, I think that much more could happen.