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23/07/22 07:22 AM IST

Science of Genetics

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  • 200 years of the father of genetics, Gregor Mendel.
Genetics
  • Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.
  • It was  first experimentally established by Gregor Mendel (a monk) (1822 to 1884)
Contributions 
  • By experimenting with pea plant breeding, Mendel developed three principles of inheritance that described the transmission of genetic traits, before anyone knew genes existed.
  • To this day, scientists use Mendel’s principles to explain the most basic phenomena of inheritance.
  • Foundation of biology: Mendel’s theory, together with the evolutionary theory propounded by Charles Darwin, laid the foundations of biology.
  • Cure for many human diseases: Assisted clinicians in human disease research
  • For example, within just a couple of years of the rediscovery of Mendel’s work, Archibald Garrod applied Mendel’s principles to his study of alkaptonuria (discolouration of the skin)
  • Science of genomics and gene editing has its root in the work of Mendel.
Source- PIB 

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