who discovered genes?

Answer 1

Gregor Mendel....with his pea plant studies

Answer 2

Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk, is credited with discovering genetic inheritance. He cross-polinated pea plants from 1856 to 1863 and studied how traits could disappear in the second generation but reappear later, and which traits seemed to always dominate their opposing traits.

However, the actual word "gene" was coined by Wilhelm Johannsen, a Danish botanist, in 1909, and it wasn't until 1944 that Oswald Avery, Collin Macleod, and Maclyn McCarty showed that gene was encoded into DNA.

Answer 3

Levi.