What for did Mendel use the term factors and what are these factors called now.
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For him they were just discrete physical units of inheritance. Johanson coined the term "gene" and people started calling them genes. Today for us these factors are parts of DNA, the base sequences that carry the biological information to determine a trait. Mendel factors are alleles of genes.
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factors were used by mendel for genes nowadays called genes only
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