Gregor Mendel was the first scientist to use statistics to analyze scientific data. Before Mendel's experiments, scientists believed that organisms acquired traits from their environment and passed them on to their offspring. After Mendel's discoveries were accepted, scientists realized that traits passed to offspring were the result of genes being passed from parents to offspring. This is an example of

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Magdalena Conner

10 March, 18:24

Gregor Mendel was the first scientist to use statistics to analyze scientific data. Before Mendel's experiments, scientists believed that organisms acquired traits from their environment and passed them on to their offspring. After Mendel's discoveries were accepted, scientists realized that traits passed to offspring were the result of genes being passed from parents to offspring. This is an example of

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Juliana Scott · Answer 1

This would be an example of "genetic inheritance", which is also one of the founding concepts of Darwin's theory of evolution--since when certain genes mutate, this gives the new offspring a unique life.