When scientists today work to decode the human genome, they use high-tech methods to view the microscopic chromosomes and even pluck individual genes out of a cell. But in Darwin's time ...

Gregor Mendel's principles of inheritance form the cornerstone of modern genetics. So just what are they? When looking at the figure, notice that for each F 1 plant, the self-fertilization ...

As early as the 1860s, Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin ... for what became known as the chromosome theory of heredity. Early Breakthroughs: Mendel and Darwin Propose Mechanisms of Heredity ...