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2. The Austrian monk Gregor Mendel's observations of what organism formed the basis for the science of genetics?
William & Mary professor Elizabeth Harbron displays vials with merocyanine and rhodamine dye in her lab in Williamsburg, Va. (Steve Helber/AP)
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