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  1. Gregor Mendel
    Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884)
    Nearly 50 years earlier, Gregor Mendel had characterized hereditary units as factors- observable differences that were passed from parent to offspring.
  2. Mendel
    Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884)
    Nearly 50 years earlier, Gregor Mendel had characterized hereditary units as factors- observable differences that were passed from parent to offspring.
  3. Francis Crick
    English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)
    Francis Crick

    Although DNA is the carrier of genetic information in a cell, proteins do the bulk of the work.
  4. Charles Darwin
    English natural scientist who formulated a theory of evolution by natural selection (1809-1882)
    Mutations are what lie behind the popular saying of "survival of the fittest", the basic theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin in 1859.
  5. Bering
    Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741)
    For example, mtDNA analysis has been used to trace the migration of people from Asia across the Bering Strait to North and South America.
Created on Thu Nov 19 14:57:00 EST 2009

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