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questions of organic evolution, raised through the publications 

 of Darwin, the ideas of Mendel attracted very little attention. 

 The principles that he established were re-discovered in 1900 

 by De Vries and other botanists, and thus naturalists were led 

 to look up the work of Mendel. 



FIG. 95. GREGOR MENDEL, 1822-1884. 

 Permission of Professor Bateson. 



The great discovery of Mendel may be called that of 

 the purity of the germ-cells. By cross- fertilization of pure 

 breeds of peas of different colors and shapes he obtained 

 hybrids. The hybrid embodied the characteristics of the 



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crossed peas; one of the characteristics appearing, and the 

 other being held in abeyance present within the organization 



