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In 1866, Gregor Mendel, a high-school science teacher in what is now Brno, Czech Republic, described plant-breeding experiments that he had done in the garden of the monastery of St. Thomas. The paper appeared in the transactions of the Brünn Natural History Society, two years before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. Neither man knew the work of the other. Indeed, Mendel's work remained unnoticed until 1900, 16 years after his death. William Bateson coined the word "genetics" in 1906, invented the terms "heterozygote" and "homozygote," and was the first to apply Mendel's ideas to a human disease, alkaptonuria. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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