Gregor Johann Mendel (20 July 1822 – 6 January 1884) was born in 1822 in what is today the Czech Republic. His father was a peasant and Mendel became a clergyman at the age of 21 at the St. Thomas Monastery in Brno, where he lived a quiet and fulfilling life. By hybridizing peas, Mendel wrote an astonishing chapter in the history of science and was named the “father of genetics” in the 20th century. In 1990, the Human Genome Project (HGP) was set off and was completed in 2003 with full success. The HGP was a scientific research project...