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Mendel's peas revealed how traits inherit
Crosses produced a consistent three to one ratio in the second generation Gregor Mendel tracked seven traits in garden peas and counted thousands of offspring. He reasoned that each plant carries two factors per trait, one from each parent, and that one can mask the other. His 1866 paper was largely ignored until three botanists rediscovered the work in 1900. It sits in Mondo's science collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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- Crosses produced a consistent three to one ratio in the second generation. The figure is taken from Nature, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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