Meiosis.
The remarkable breeding experiments carried out by Gregor Mendel between 1856 and 1863 are now considered to be the origins of modern genetics. It"s easy to overlook the brilliance of Mendel"s data analysis today as his conclusions seem so simple and obvious now we know about chromosome movements during meiosis. At the time he didn"t and other scientists were researching other ideas of inheritance.After an introductory...