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Mendel's Laws of Inheritance and the human genome
Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) was an Austrian priest and scientist. Today, he is often called the father of genetics for having demonstrated that the inheritance of traits follows particular laws, now known as Mendel's laws. Mendel worked with pea plants between 1856 and 1863, cultivating and testing approximately 29,000 pea plants, which would eventually be the basis for Mendel's Laws of Inheritance. Mendel read a paper, "Experiments on Plant Hybridization", on his work in 1865, and the paper was published in 1866 in Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Brunn. Criticized at the time, the paper had little impact and was cited approximately three times during the rest of the century. Mendel's work was rediscovered at the turn of the century and prompted the foundation of the discipline of genetics.
Mendel did other scientific work with honeybees and describing novel plant species. In 1868, however, he became an abbot and had little time for scientific work due to his increased administrative responsibilities. The following abbot burned all the papers in Mendel's collection upon his death. His work was rediscovered in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, forming the basis for classical genetics. The next step after that would be modern genetics, eventually resulting in the Human Genome Project. This picture shows the human genome in book form.
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