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Contents

• Contents
• Preface
• The Setting of the Drama: What Mendel Set Out To Do; Determining The Rules of the Game of Hybridization
• A Digression on Chromosomes
• An Exegesis for Physicists
• Collecting Data: Six Years and 84 Experiments
  • A Tour of the Figures
• Summary Remarks
• Bibliography

De Generibus Diversis: Pisum Sativum, Physics, Style, and Gregor Mendel

M. W. P. Strandberg
Physics Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge MA 02139 USA

Started January 1, 1989
Second text start, June 15, 1990
Third text start, February 15, 1992
Fourth text start, April 27, 1992
Fifth text start, June 24, 2000
Date of this copy for review, July 14, 2000
Webbed February 6, 2001

Abstract:

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Gregor Mendel's experiments that investigated the genetic reproduction rules in garden peas were high quality physics.