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Mendel began his
research well
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prepared with
cross experiments
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on simple
features.
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This way he proceeded
to gradually
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more complex experiments. He
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also worked with
repeatable
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experiments. Experiments, for that
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matter, that also led to quantitative
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results.
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This
practice of science so common
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nowadays
was not so usual at all at
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that time.
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Mendel wanted to be
certain,
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before starting his
cross
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experiments, that his
material to
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begin with would be homozygous
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(pure breed).
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And indeed, it took
already some
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time 'only' to produce
this
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material before he
actually could
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do the first crosses.
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(One could call this way
to proceed
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easily also a method of
"Technological
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Design"- avant la lettre ...)
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