... the evolutionary process is dependant on the understanding of how individuals pass on characteristics to their offspring. Genetics achieved its first foothold on the secrets of nature's evolutionary process when an Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel developed the first "laws of heredity." Using these laws, scientists studied the characteristics of organisms for most of the next one hundred years following Mendel's ... discovery. These early studies concluded that each organism has two sets of character determinants, or genes (Stableford 16 ... resulting in the appearance of such human cha...

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