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The mule was first recorded in Egypt in 3000 BC. The mule had existed prior to this date, however there wasn't any written proof about the worlds first man-made hybrid.
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Gregor Mendel was born on July 20, 1820 in Hyncie, Austria to Anton and Rosine Mendel. This family had a German ethnicity and spoke it while Mendel was young. This helped him in his later life because, at the time, the Germans, making discoveries left and right, were the best scientists throughout the world and renowned for their recent advances in chemistery and biology.
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Gregor Mendel first started experimenting with pea plants this year. He planted them in the garden of his monastery
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This was the most important event in genetics thus far. Without Gregor Mendel's publication, there would not be nearly as much knowledge about genetics as we do presently
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Once, Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns rediscovered the ideas of Gregor Mendel, they represented them to the public to a good response. The public believed Gregor Mendel's ideas and he posthumously received the credit that he defineatly deserved
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In 1913 Alfred Sturtevat created the first accurate genetic map of a chromosome. Without this event there would likely be little to no knowledge of chromosomes and DNA.
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In 1953 the shape of DNA was confirmed to be a double helix by these two men. This was a very important advance in the study of DNA.
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A team of scientists creates the first human clone
