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beginning of our thinking of the possibility of genetic |
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begins with Mendel. He described the
genetics of |
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| pea
crosses, although he did not know what genetic |
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| material
was he referred to “factors” as the things which |
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his pea plants their physical characteristics. While |
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| Mendel’s
work gave a logical description of heredity it |
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largely ignored for many decades.
His work was |
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reproduced in the early 1900s and was thereafter |
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| regarded as
fact |
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