When were Gregor Mendel's works rediscovered by William Bateson?
1900
1910
1920
1930
Answer
In 1900, the Austrian botanist Gregor Mendel's works on the inheritance of traits in pea plants were rediscovered by William Bateson, an English biologist. Mendel's paper, published in 1866, had been largely ignored by the scientific community at the time, but Bateson's work brought it to the attention of the wider world and led to the development of the science of genetics.
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