What is genetics? What is the contribution of mendel in it?
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Genetics is a branch of biology concerned with the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms. Gregor Mendel, a scientist and Augustinian friar, discovered genetics in the late 19th-century. Mendel studied "trait inheritance", patterns in the way traits are handed down from parents to offspring.
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Genetics is a branch of biology concerned with the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.
He established the laws of heredity—that’s to say the how of evolution. So, essentially, he founded the science of genetics, although he didn’t use the term gene himself (or genetics). Unfortunately, his work on heredity was pretty much ignored during his lifetime so he would probably be surprised to find his name so well known now.
While Darwin explained in broad terms how evolution (or, to use his words—natural selection) worked, he didn’t know the mechanism that made it work beyond the fairly vague notion of “inheritance”. Even though Darwin and Mendel were alive at the same time, they didn’t know of each others’ work.
He established the laws of heredity—that’s to say the how of evolution. So, essentially, he founded the science of genetics, although he didn’t use the term gene himself (or genetics). Unfortunately, his work on heredity was pretty much ignored during his lifetime so he would probably be surprised to find his name so well known now.
While Darwin explained in broad terms how evolution (or, to use his words—natural selection) worked, he didn’t know the mechanism that made it work beyond the fairly vague notion of “inheritance”. Even though Darwin and Mendel were alive at the same time, they didn’t know of each others’ work.
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