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What Did Gregor Mendel Think He Discovered?

by Daniel L. Hartl* and Vitezslav Orel**

* Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110-1095
**Museum of the Mendelianum, Brno, Czechoslovakia

Copyright © 1992 by the Genetics Society of America.

(This paper originally appeared in Genetics 131: 245-253 (1992). It is made available at MendelWeb, for non-commercial educational use only, with the kind permission of Dr. Hartl and Genetics. Although you are welcome to download this text, please do not reproduce it without the permission of the authors and Genetics.)


What Did Mendel Think He Discovered?

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