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The existence of discrete heritable units was discovered by Gregor Mendel. From 1857 to 1864, in Brno, Austrian Empire (today's Czech Republic), he studied inheritance patterns in 8000 common edible pea plants, tracking distinct traits from parent to offspring. He described these mathematically as 2ⁿ combinations where n is the number of differing characteristics in the original peas. Although

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