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. 2003 Nov;88(6):F537-9.
doi: 10.1136/fn.88.6.f537.

Gregor Mendel, OSA (1822-1884), founder of scientific genetics

P M Dunn  1
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Gregor Mendel, OSA (1822-1884), founder of scientific genetics

P M Dunn. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 2003 Nov.

Abstract

Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk and part-time school teacher, undertook a series of brilliant hybridisation experiments with garden peas between 1857 and 1864 in the monastery gardens and, using statistical methods for the first time in biology, established the laws of heredity, thereby establishing the discipline of genetics.

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The opening paragraph of Mendel's 1865 paper on the hybridisation of peas.
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