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    • Black and white old portrait photo of Gregor Mendel (1822–1884).
    Rights: Hugo Iltis - Wellcome Library, London, CC BY 4.0 Published 21 February 2008 Size: 650 KB Referencing Hub media

    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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      Biology idea 2: The gene

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      Mendel’s principles of inheritance

      Our understanding of how inherited traits are passed between generations comes from principles first proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1866. Mendel worked on pea plants, but his principles apply to ...

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      Mendel and inheritance

      Gregor Mendel’s principles of inheritance were based on his experiments with peas in the 1860s. 150+ years later, scientists have identified the gene for Mendel’s pea flower colour. Rights: Plant ...

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