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Article: Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics.
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- August 16, 2006
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September 15, 2006, Through April 1, 2007 at The Field Museum
CHICAGO, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the most important scientific findings ever went unnoticed for 35 years.
In 1865, Gregor Mendel reported the results of plant hybridizing experiments and laid out the basic laws of inheritance -- offering a tentative but insightful sketch of how physical traits are passed from one generation to the next. This ground-breaking work was ignored until the turn of the century, when it was rediscovered and confirmed by other researchers.
Since then, Mendel has come to be recognized as the father of genetics, although the story of how he accomplished ...