This document provides an overview of Chapter 14 from Campbell Biology, Ninth Edition, which discusses Gregor Mendel and his experiments with pea plants that established the basic principles of heredity and genetics. It summarizes Mendel's experimental methods and key findings, including his laws of segregation and independent assortment. It explains how Mendel used controlled crosses and statistical analysis to determine that traits are inherited as discrete units (now known as genes) that segregate and assort independently. Finally, it notes that inheritance patterns are sometimes more complex than predicted by simple Mendelian genetics.