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Mendel was a monk who bred pea plants with different traits to see how they were inherited. Breeding a tall and a short plant together, for instance, produced three tall plants and one short one, leading him to believe the tall trait was dominant over the short one. It laid the foundation for modern genetics, although many of his assumptions (that all traits are fully independent for instance) turned out to be incorrect.

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