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Genetics and Mendel's Historical Context
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Genetics is the study of heredity, and Johann Gregor Mendel established its founding framework in 1866, before chromosomes or genes had been identified.
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Mendel worked out inheritance patterns from garden pea crosses decades before meiosis itself was described.
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Mendel's laws were derived from breeding data alone — the chromosomal mechanism behind them came later, from other scientists.
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