Gil Hahn

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through every reduction division, the chromosomes reproduced themselves, retaining their identity through countless cycles of mitosis and meiosis. “The association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs,” he concluded in 1902, “and their subsequent separation during the reducing division . . . may constitute the physical basis of the Mendelian law of heredity.” This was the first expression of what would come to be known as the chromosome theory of inheritance.
The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
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