Gregor Johann Mendel
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Gregor Mendel was one of the first people in the history of science to
discover genetics. He independently discovered his work and lived in Brunn,
Czechoslovakia. In Brunn he was a monk and later the Abbot of the church in
Brunn. While he was in Brunn he performed many experiments with garden peas. ....
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in such a simple model. He was rediscovered by Hugo de Vries in The Netherlands,
Carl Correns in Germany, and Evich Tschermak in Austria all at the same time
after 1900. They named the units Mendel described "genes." When the gene has a
slighty different base sequence it is called an "allele."
Mendel also developed 3 laws or principles. The first principle is
called the, "Principle of Segregation." This principle states that the traits of
an organism are determined by individual un ....
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