... for society, is to obtain a rough knowledge base of its history and method. The basis for altering 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 ...

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... Watson). At the request of his father superior, Abbot Napp, Mendel tried his hand at some scientific experiments involving heredity. Using an ingenious design, Mendel crossbred two strains of the plant (one with green peas, the other with yellow peas) and noted the ratios of the resulting progeny (Monk and Two Peas, notes 407). His results led him to realize that ... a type of cell in which they were not paired (DNA Watson). These unpaired chromosomes came to be known as the sex cells and coincided with Mendel's observation that his pea plant sperm cells carried a single copy of factors...

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