Chapter 11 Lecture Enrichment Ideas


  • Describe the "loss" of Mendel's work for thirty-five years and the rediscovery of the same laws of heredity by three scientists in 1900. Consider the timeliness of research and how some findings can be "ahead of their time" and therefore unappreciated.
  • Speculate what an awareness of Mendel's findings might have done for Darwin's presentation of his theory of evolution.


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