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Gregor Mendel: The Laws of Heredity
The Augustinian friar who bred about 28,000 pea plants in Brno, found that traits pass in discrete units in 3:1 ratios, was ignored for 35 years, and became the founder of genetics when rediscovered in 1900.
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Prereqs: Darwin & evolution. Next: Watson, Crick & Franklin; Biology: cells. Sources: Mendel, *Experiments on Plant Hybridization* (1866); Robin Marantz Henig, *The Monk in the Garden* (2000); Crash Course History of Science #25.Next: 1. Life