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While Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" was published in November 1859, a monastic priest and teacher named Gregor Mendel was in his third year experimenting with pea plants. His final results demonstrated principles of heredity that would eventually evolve into the new disciplines of genetics and molecular biology. His work not only helped solve the mysteries of diseases such as cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs disease, sickle cell disease, and hemophilia, it also and lay the foundation for the Human Genome Project.
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