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Genetics is a powerful field of science, with many possibilities. The practice of breeding animals to achieve the desired results has been done since domestication itself. The actual study of genetics started long ago, with Mendel and his studies. Now scientists know much more of genetics and DNA. However, with the increased knowledge comes increases power, and with power comes the potential to abuse it. With the potential to abuse power comes ethical questions on what the humans race should do with this power. The Austrian Monk Gregor Mendel discovered the basics of genetics. He was trained in physics, then was recruited to a monastery to do some research in breeding plants and animals. Mendel preformed his experiments with the pea plant, and found that a basic ratio of things, such as the color of flowers, was always 1:3. This means that from every mating of two pea plants, one would have a certain trait for every three plants that had a different trait. For example, three plants would have white leaves for every one with pink leaves. He concluded from this that there had to be some sort of basic law of heredity. Mendel explained this by saying that parent plants had two factors,