Gregor Mendel · Science
How Mendel’s buried discovery rose from obscurity in 1900, was championed into the foundation of a new science, and led - through chromosomes and DNA - to the molecular understanding of the gene, completing the journey from a monk’s pea-counting to the reading of the human genome.
You learned how Mendel’s work, ignored for thirty-five years, was rediscovered around 1900 by de Vries, Correns, and Tschermak, championed by William Bateson, and grew into genetics - connected to chromosomes by Morgan and ultimately to DNA by Watson and Crick. Explain why science was finally ready to understand Mende…
Leads to William Bateson.
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