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1Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Plos Biology
|July 19, 2022
Abstract:
Mendel, a genius experimentalist, meticulously uncovered the genetic basis of heredity in work that transformed the science of biology. But does the alluring simplicity of Mendel's laws sometimes obscure the true complexity of genetics?
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