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Gregor Mendel

Black and white old portrait photo of Gregor Mendel (1822–1884).

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.

Rights: Hugo Iltis - Wellcome Library, London, CC BY 4.0
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