In two to three sentences, explain the impact Gregor Mendel had on the study of inheritance.

Gregor Mendel, via his work on the pea plants, found the basic and essential laws of inheritance. He discovered that genes occur in pairs and are inherited as different units, one from each parent. He traced the segregation of parental genes and their appearance in the offspring as recessive or dominant traits.

Mendel's work gave three laws of inheritance, that is, the law of segregation, the law of dominance, and the law of independent assortment. Each of these can be comprehended via looking through the procedure of meiosis.