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“In this generation, along with the dominating traits, the recessive ones also reappear, their individuality fully revealed, and they do so in the decisively expressed average proportion of 3:1, so that among each four plants of this generation three receive the dominating and one the recessive characteristic.”

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Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel

Gregor Mendel, born on July 20, 1822, and died on January 6, 1884, was a renowned scientist. He is hailed as the founder of modern genetics, having proposed the concept of genetic factors through his experiments with pea hybridization, laying the foundation for the development of genetics. more

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