What: The laws of the heredity ( “Mendel´s Laws” ).
Who: Gregor Johann Mendel.
When: In 1865.
15th of April: is assassinated with a firing in the head the president Abraham Lincoln by the actor John Wilkes Booth.
How: Mendel studied during years, plants of peas of different species and their descendan
ts, and he observed that many characters were transmit of a plant to the following one.He came to the conclusion that the living creatures transmit their characters to the descendents (this explains the similarity of the children to parents).
Mendel is known like the father of the genetics.
Genetics is the part of Biology that studies the heredity and its variations.
Today, the genetics can be applied to create more resistant organisms to plagues, eradicate diseases, clone creatures choose the sex, fertilization in vitro, etc…
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