History Timeline of Genetics
Gregor Mendel formulates laws of inheritance,1865,CE,Mendel conducts pea plant hybridization experiments identifying patterns of dominant and recessive trait segregation foundational to classical genetics,genetics Friedrich Miescher discovers nuclein,1869,CE,Miescher isolates a phosphorus rich substance from pus cells later named DNA revealing the chemical basis for heredity,molecular genetics Hugo de Vries Carl Correns and Erich von Tschermak rediscover … Read more