ABSTRACT
Three hundred years ago the fundamental questions of “heredity” were quite obscure among biologists. Even today's discipline of biology emerged only in the 1800s. However, by the 1810s discoveries deriving from medical science and agriculture had revealed that there are some rules in the transmission of characteristics across generations. One of the first steps in the series of these observations was that of a Hungarian count, Imre Festetics leading to the epochal studies of Mendel laying the foundations of present-day modern genetics and genomics. The basic phenomena of heredity are quite complicated to allow for exact interpretation through schemes that rely on sensus communis or the logic of Greek philosophy. The basic questions of heredity had been recognized in the early nineteenth century, the scientific community had to reach an appropriate level to be able to analyze and interpret the data collected through experiments properly.
