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Mendel, Gregor

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  1. An Austrian biologist and monk of the nineteenth century. Mendel discovered the basic laws of genetics by doing experiments with pea plants.

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Mendel, Gregor, 145; his law, 146; 147, 148.

From The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope by Crampton, Henry Edward

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