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Gregor Mendel, born 1822, was an early genetic biologist.<ref>Gregor Johann Mendel. 2014. The Biography.com website. [Internet] Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/gregor-mendel-39282 [Accessed 27 Nov 2014].</ref> He is now considered 'the father of modern genetics' for his contributions in discovering the way in which genetic traits are passed from generation to generation. His experiments with pea plants established the fundamental principles used in modern genetics; namely the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment. Mendel found, through his pea plant experiments, that there are dominant and recessive traits in the genes of organisms and that these traits are passed on statistically from generation to generation.<ref>Sturtevant, A. H. (1965). A HISTORY OF GENETICS. New York, U.S.A.: Harper & Row. p9-11.</ref> | Gregor Mendel, born 1822, was an early genetic biologist.<ref>Gregor Johann Mendel. 2014. The Biography.com website. [Internet] Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/gregor-mendel-39282 [Accessed 27 Nov 2014].</ref> He is now considered 'the father of modern [[Evolutionary_Genetics:_Hominoids|genetics]]' for his contributions in discovering the way in which genetic traits are passed from generation to generation. His experiments with pea plants established the fundamental principles used in modern [[Evolutionary_Genetics:_Hominoids|genetics]]; namely the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment. Mendel found, through his pea plant experiments, that there are dominant and recessive [[traits|traits]] in the genes of [[Organism|organisms]] and that these traits are passed on statistically from generation to generation.<ref>Sturtevant, A. H. (1965). A HISTORY OF GENETICS. New York, U.S.A.: Harper &amp; Row. p9-11.</ref> | ||
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Gregor Mendel, born 1822, was an early genetic biologist.[1] He is now considered 'the father of modern genetics' for his contributions in discovering the way in which genetic traits are passed from generation to generation. His experiments with pea plants established the fundamental principles used in modern genetics; namely the Law of Segregation and the Law of Independent Assortment. Mendel found, through his pea plant experiments, that there are dominant and recessive traits in the genes of organisms and that these traits are passed on statistically from generation to generation.[2]
References.
- ↑ Gregor Johann Mendel. 2014. The Biography.com website. [Internet] Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/gregor-mendel-39282 [Accessed 27 Nov 2014].
- ↑ Sturtevant, A. H. (1965). A HISTORY OF GENETICS. New York, U.S.A.: Harper & Row. p9-11.