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Mendel's Two Laws of Heredity and their Mechanism. AT the time when Mendel discovered his two fundamental laws of heredity, no mechanism was known in plants or animals that would explain how such processes as those invoked by him could be brought about; but between 1865 and 1900 (when Mendel's “Principles” were recovered), the study of the ripening process (maturation) of the egg and sperm-cell had progressed so far that such a mechanism was ready at hand.
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MORGAN, T. The Mechanism of Heredity. Nature 109, 241–244 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/109241a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/109241a0