Gregor Mendel, Experiments on Plant Hybridization, Proceedings of the Nature Research Society of Brünn, 1866

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• Introduced the concepts of dominant and recessive “factors”.
• Postulates two laws of heredity.
• The Law of Segregation. Even though an organism inherits two factors from its parents, it contributes only one of them to its offspring.
• The Law of Independent Assortment. The factors for different traits are sorted separately from one another.