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Gregor Mendel

Gregor Mendel (1822–1884) is known as the father of genetics. He proposed the key laws of genetics from this work on inheritance of traits in peas in 1866.

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Published: 21 February 2008Updated: 21 February 2008Size: 654.16 KB

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