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What Mendel's factors called today?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 1/16/2023

For him they were just discrete physical units of inheritance. Johanson coined the term "gene" and people started calling them genes. Today for us these factors are parts of DNA, the base sequences that carry the biological information to determine a trait. Mendel factors are alleles of genes.

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Florine Wiza

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2y ago

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