Mendel's laws of inheritance (law of segregation and law of independent assortment) provided the basic framework for the field of genetics, even before the discovery of DNA.
Who is known as father of Genetics ?
Asked in UKPSC CS Prelims 2021 · Topic: Heredity (Mendel's Laws of Inheritance)
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