I think it's supposed to be Gregor Mendel, the Belgian monk who did experiments on peas to identify heritable traits. Pair a tall bean with another tall bean, y

I think it's supposed to be Gregor Mendel, the Belgian monk who did experiments on peas to identify heritable traits. Pair a tall bean with another tall bean, you get a long offspring bean. This is where the phrase mendelian genetics comes from, and that's what I thought they named the company after.